The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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About Mark Twain

Portrait of Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include...

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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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When in doubt tell the truth.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

—H. L. Mencken

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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

—William Butler Yeats

The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young.

—Judith Martin

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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History

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