Publishers Quotes

• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiring, Thankful

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

  Cass Canfield

  Writing, Receiving, Ends

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• Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Country, Money, Women

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• I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Happy, God

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.182, Chartwell

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

  William Feather

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.

  William Feather

  Kindness, People, Attractive

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• I am only human, although I regret it.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Regret, Humorous

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky

  Nizar Qabbani

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  Nizar Qabbani, “My Lover Asks Me”

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• I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Time, Humorous

  Provincial Letters: Letter XVI, December 4, 1656.

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• I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

  Mark Twain

  Government, Differences, Entrepreneur

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.253, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

  Mark Twain

  Block, Sleep, Names

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  The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Business

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• A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.

  Mark Twain

  Faith, Confidence, Religious

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• You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Heart, Law

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.164, Createspace Independent Pub

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• Fear clogs; Faith liberates.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Faith, Freedom

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Happiness is a form of courage.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

  Mark Twain

  God, Differences, Editors

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Inspirational, Death, Sarcastic

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• God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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