Mark Twain: A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper th

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely — Mark Twain

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hard — Mark Twain
He is a stranger to me, but he is a most remarkable man — and I am the other one — Mark Twain
I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog. — Mark Twain
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. — Mark Twain
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's — George Bernard Shaw
Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their pow — Karl Marx
The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer — Marcus Aurelius
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen tog — Charles Dickens
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever can be done another day can be done today. — Michel de Montaigne
I realize, however, that, since the truth does not please everyone , there are m — Justinus Bonaventura Pranaitis
No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that i — Sigmund Freud