![]() “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.” You may die of a misprint.” He DID say: “A successful book is not made of what is in it, but of what is left out of it.”ĩ. It is thanks to Twain, however, that the saying became popular in the U.S. “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Twain himself denied inventing this quote, and claimed Benjamin Disraeli was the one who created it. He DID say: “Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death.”ħ. “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” He DID say: “We write frankly and fearlessly but then we "modify" before we print.”Ħ. ![]() “I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” This was actually written by Blaise Pascal. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it.”ĥ. He DID say: “I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” He DID say: “When a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.”Ĥ. “Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.” He DID say: “ was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.”ģ. “It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.” He DID say: “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”Ģ. ![]() It has also been attributed to Agatha Christie. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
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