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

~Mark Twain

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

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Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

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Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: November 30th, 1835

Died: April 21st, 1910

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