Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardness yields, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
~ Mark Twain

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Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.
~ Mark Twain

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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
~ Mark Twain

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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
~ Mark Twain

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Truth is stranger than fiction — to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.
~ Mark Twain

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
~ Mark Twain

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