Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

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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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It is easier to stay out than get out.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you see, I have friends in both places.

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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

—Flannery O'Connor

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

—Ambrose Bierce

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

—Booth Tarkington

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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.

—Laurie Halse Anderson in Speak

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