Mark Twain

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

- Mark Twain

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

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"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."

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"When all else fails, write what your heart tells you. You can’t depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out of focus."

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"A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory."

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"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well."

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"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."

- Mark Twain

"Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well."

- Mark Twain

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

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"Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe."

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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."

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"Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter."

- Mark Twain

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

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"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with."

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"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got"

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"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

- Mark Twain

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

- Mark Twain

"The secret of getting ahead is just getting started."

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"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."

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""Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.""

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"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."

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"Part of the secret of success is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."

- Mark Twain

"The secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."

- Mark Twain

"Never let formal education get in the way of your learning."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

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"Never regret anything that made you smile."

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"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

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"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."

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"Everyone is a Moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."

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"You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain’t no matter."

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""Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.""

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"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not."

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"It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise."

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"The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time."

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"The secret of success is making your vacation your vacation."

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"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."

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"The first draft is a skeleton .… just bare bones. The rest of the story comes later with revising."

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"The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't."

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"A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read."

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"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

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"Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions."

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"Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did."

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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."

- Mark Twain

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

- Mark Twain

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one."

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"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."

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"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

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"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog."

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"If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first."

- Mark Twain

"The secret of getting ahead, is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did."

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"Good judgement is the result of experience, and experience the result of bad judgement."

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"What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so."

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"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got."

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"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

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"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

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"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence — then success is sure."

- Mark Twain

"Don’t let schooling interfere with your education."

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"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

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"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."

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"The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."

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"A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

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"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."

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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, and sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"One must travel to learn."

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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."

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"We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty."

- Mark Twain

"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."

- Mark Twain

"Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you, too, can become great."

- Mark Twain

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness"

- Mark Twain

""I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.""

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""The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.""

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"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

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"Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read."

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"The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t."

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"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."

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"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."

- Mark Twain

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself."

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"Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

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"Dance like nobody’s looking."

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"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."

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"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked."

- Mark Twain

"Synergy – the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

- Mark Twain

"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them."

- Mark Twain

"started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

- Mark Twain

"Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe."

- Mark Twain

"Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."

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"Never delay what you can do tomorrow!"

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"What are the appropriate proportions of maxims? The minimum amount of sound and the maximum amount of sense."

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"October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February."

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"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

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"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

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"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

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"The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean."

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"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."

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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

- Mark Twain

"Everyone is a Moon and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody."

- Mark Twain

"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."

- Mark Twain

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence and then success is sure."

- Mark Twain

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one."

- Mark Twain

"There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded."

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"Start early to get ahead."

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"Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step."

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"A person who won’t read has no advantage over a person who can’t read."

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"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."

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"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."

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"Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh."

- Mark Twain

"To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the 'what is next', of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here."

- Mark Twain

"Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"When angry, count four. When very angry, swear."

- Mark Twain

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

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""All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.""

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"Don’t compare your life to others. There is no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it’s their time. Be crazy, be weird, don’t be afraid of what anybody thinks. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect."

- Mark Twain

"It’s better to give than to receive. Especially advice."

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do."

- Mark Twain

""Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.""

- Mark Twain

""Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.""

- Mark Twain

"In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours."

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"Don’t you know what that is? It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!"

- Mark Twain

"A good barber is a philosopher in disguise."

- Mark Twain

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."

- Mark Twain

"Success is the result of a clear, consistent, long-term effort."

- Mark Twain

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."

- Mark Twain

""The secret of getting ahead, is getting started.""

- Mark Twain

"If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning."

- Mark Twain

"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog."

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"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."

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"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."

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"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's."

- Mark Twain

""Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.""

- Mark Twain

""The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t.""

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"“We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.”"

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"“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”"

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"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be Pirates"

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"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be Pirates."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore! Dream! Discover!"

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"My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart—a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation."

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"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

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"It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions."

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"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times."

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""The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.""

- Mark Twain

"Family: A unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation."

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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

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"Golf is a good walk spoiled."

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"Just remember, age is a matter of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter!"

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"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it."

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"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not."

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"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not"

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"The difference between the ‘almost right’ word and the ‘right’ word is really a large matter … ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."

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"Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."

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""Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.""

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"New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."

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"Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right."

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"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough."

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"In a good book room you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."

- Mark Twain

"The two most important days in your life are the day you're born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."

- Mark Twain

"New Year's Day... now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."

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"Give every day the chance to become the most ‘Beautiful Day’ of your life"

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"A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"

- Mark Twain

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking down complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

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"It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!"

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"The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn’t it be?–it is the same the angels breathe."

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"To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with."

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"Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."

- Mark Twain

"Family: A unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

- Mark Twain

"20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why."

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"Nothing that grieves us can be called little. By the eternal law of proportions, a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of his crown are events of the same size."

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"To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the ‘what is next’ of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here."

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"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

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"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times."

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""The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them.""

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""Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.""

- Mark Twain

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

- Mark Twain

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."

- Mark Twain

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why"

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"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."

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"I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won’t."

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"If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything."

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"Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it."

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"Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain’t so."

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"Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth."

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"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives."

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""Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter." ―Mark Twain"

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"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

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"It is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise."

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"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

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"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

- Mark Twain

"Work like you don’t need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you’ve never been hurt."

- Mark Twain

"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."

- Mark Twain

"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."

- Mark Twain

"I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened."

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""In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.""

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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

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"The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them."

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"The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter."

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"Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand."

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"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."

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"I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened."

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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect)."

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"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."

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"The secret to getting ahead is getting started. Good morning!"

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"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

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""The secret of getting ahead is getting started.""

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"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

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"Synergy is the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

- Mark Twain

"If you have nothing to say, say nothing"

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"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s."

- Mark Twain

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"Quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it a hundred times."

- Mark Twain

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that. But the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

- Mark Twain

"The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education."

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"There isn’t time—so brief is life—for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving—and but an instant, so to speak, for that."

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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect."

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"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."

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"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s."

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"A baby is an inestimable blessing."

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"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

- Mark Twain

"Patriotism means supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did."

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"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century."

- Mark Twain

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you figure out why."

- Mark Twain

"In spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours."

- Mark Twain

"“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”"

- Mark Twain

"Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment."

- Mark Twain

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the real greats make you feel that you, too, can be great."

- Mark Twain

""Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.""

- Mark Twain

""All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.""

- Mark Twain

""A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory.""

- Mark Twain

""The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.""

- Mark Twain

"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."

- Mark Twain

"You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can’t forget. Those are your friends."

- Mark Twain

"Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not a piece of advice, it is merely a custom."

- Mark Twain

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."

- Mark Twain

"Your wrinkles are merely a mark where your smile have been."

- Mark Twain

"It’s an epitome of life. The first half consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."

- Mark Twain

"You should not complain about aging. It is a honor and a privilege that many don’t enjoy."

- Mark Twain

"The two most important days in life are the day you born and the day you discover the reason why."

- Mark Twain

"The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."

- Mark Twain

"The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."

- Mark Twain

""The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.""

- Mark Twain

"Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century."

- Mark Twain

"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others."

- Mark Twain

"Saturday morning came, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life."

- Mark Twain

"Start early to get ahead"

- Mark Twain

""It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.""

- Mark Twain

"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old"

- Mark Twain

"If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover."

- Mark Twain

"If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first."

- Mark Twain

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

- Mark Twain

"I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct—nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying."

- Mark Twain

"If I cannot drink bourbon and smoke cigars in heaven than I shall not go."

- Mark Twain

"The world is your oyster today, so open it up and make your mark. Happy Saturday, and may your adventures be legendary!"

- Mark Twain

"Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms."

- Mark Twain

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started"

- Mark Twain

"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great."

- Mark Twain

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."

- Mark Twain

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do then by the ones you did do."

- Mark Twain

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

- Mark Twain

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: This is the ideal life."

- Mark Twain

"Buy land, they’re not making it anymore."

- Mark Twain

"Buy land--they’re not making it anymore."

- Mark Twain

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

""Throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.""

- Mark Twain

"Buy land. They’re not making it anymore."

- Mark Twain

"The lack of money is the root of all evil."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"Away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

""Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.""

- Mark Twain

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

""Synergy – the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.""

- Mark Twain

""Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.""

- Mark Twain

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

- Mark Twain

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

- Mark Twain

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."

- Mark Twain