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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Mark Twain
Humor
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain
Compliment
Months
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain
Humor
Mankind
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain
Mind
Quantity
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
Mark Twain
Now
Poverty
If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
Mark Twain
First
Frogs
Job
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Mark Twain
Money
Policy
Honesty
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain
Saying
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
Man
All right, then, I'll go to hell.
Mark Twain
Hell
Right
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain
Action
Words
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain
Idea
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain
Character
Conversation
Man
May
I've never let my school interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
Education
School
If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
Mark Twain
End
Want
World
Years