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Mark Twain
Keep away from...
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you...
It is curious...
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so...
Lump the whole...
Lump the whole thing! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!
My advice to...
My advice to women is: First, don't smoke -- to excess; Second, don't drink -- to excess; Third, don't marry -- to...
Never tell the...
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Source:
-- Mark Twain,...
Methuselah lived to...
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in...
It is discouraging...
It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take...
Lump the whole...
Lump the whole thing! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!
Never put off...
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Source: In...
Noise proves nothing....
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she laid an...
Monarchies, aristocracies, and...
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's...
It isn't safe...
It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking...
Make it a...
Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit...
Nothing helps scenery...
Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs.
Source:
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...
Nothing so needs...
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Source:
-- Mark Twain,...
Most people are...
Most people are bothered by scripture they don't understand, but what bothers me are those I do...
It was enough...
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Source: Huck Finn in The...
Man is a...
Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Source: In...
Nothing that grieves...
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's...
Obscurity and a...
Obscurity and a competence -- that is a life that is best worth living.
Source:...