The Public is merely a multiplied "me."
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
from the miniature edition of THE WIT AND WISDOM OF MARK TWAIN
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