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Mark Twain: top 100 quotes
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Adam (n.) is desirous of the apple only because it was forbidden... had the serpent been forbidden, he would have eaten it.
Adam (n.) is one who, when he said a good thing, knew nobody had said it before.
God (n.) is one who, if he really exists, then he is a malign thug.
God (n.) is contradictory in that he created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man.
God (n.) is one whom (in the case of the God of the Bible) to trust is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
God (n.) inexplicably gets the credit for science's eradication of a disease which God had working for him for many years.
God (n.) is the most popular scapegoat for our sins.
Success (n.) is a journey, not a destination.
Success (n.) is dependent upon making one's vocation one's vacation.
Success (n.) is dependent on nothing but ignorance and confidence.
Success's (n.) secret is to find out where people are going and get there first.
Success (n.) is different from failure in this: those that succeeded tried.
Success (n.) is doing all year long what others would otherwise do on their summer vacation.
Success (n.) always displeases even one's best friends.
Success's (n.) secret is making your vocation your vacation.
Success (n.) is when you eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Success (n.) is a simple recipe — All you need is ignorance and confidence.
Fear (n.) is destroyed decisively when one does the thing one fears most.
A Cat (n.) is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
Health (n.) is a tricky thing. Your should be careful about reading too many health books, because you may die of a misprint.
Health (n.) is that which one can only keep by eating what one doesn't want, drinking what one doesn't like, and doing what one would rather not.
Travel (n.) is liberating: You never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born.
The Dog (n.) is a gentleman... one should hope to go to his heaven not man's.