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    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    Mark Twain

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
    Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
    Mark Twain

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #23
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “Hearts are made to be broken.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest



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