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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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Terror is an efficiacious agent only when it doesn't last. In the long run there is more terror in threats than in execution, for when you get used to terror your emotions get dulled.
- quoted in Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field, Fisher

 

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