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Quote by Mark Twain
The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum

The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. – Mark Twain

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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. – Mark Twain

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All say, “How hard it is that we have to die” – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. – Mark Twain

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…the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind. – William Francis Henry King, “Introduction,” Classical and Foreign Quotations, 18

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Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings. – William R. Alger

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It is probably to Talleyrand, that Receiver-General of waif wit and estray epigram, that more sayings have been wrongly attributed than to any other modern. – William Mathews, “Quotation and Misquotation,” in North American Review, January

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—even a Proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it. – John Keats, letter to George and Georgiana Keats, February 24, 1819

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