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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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I didnt attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. – Mark Twain

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. – Mark Twain

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Quotation lovers love rare words. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

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A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice. – E.M. Cioran

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A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. – Joseph Roux (1834–1905), Meditations of a Parish Priest, 1886, translated

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Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard. – Robertson Davies

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