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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

Mark Twain

Tag: working starting

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Mark Twain

Tag: humor books

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

Mark Twain

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

Mark Twain

Tag: on-writing writing-advice

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

Mark Twain

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

Mark Twain

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Mark Twain

Tag: love women marriage

Man muß die Tatsachen kennen, bevor man sie verdrehen kann.

Mark Twain

Man is made of dirt - I saw him made. I am not made of dirt. Man is a museum of diseases, a home of impurities; he comes to-day and is gone tomorrow; he begins as dirt and departs as stench; I am of the aristocracy of the Imperishables. And man has the Moral Sense. You understand? He has the Moral Sense. That would seem to be difference enough between us, all by itself."

"I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it.

Mark Twain