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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If its your job to eat a frog, its best to do it first thing in the morning. And If its your job to eat two frogs, its best to eat the biggest one first. – Mark Twain

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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. – Mark Twain

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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. – George Bernard Shaw

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Perish the men who said our good things before us! – Aelius Donatus, quoted in Edge-Tools of Speech by Maturin M. Ballou, 1886

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Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldnt have said. – Anon.

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You could compile, I should think, the worst book in the world entirely out of selecting passages from the best writers in the world. – G.K. Chesterton, “On Writing Badly”

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