Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
MARK TWAINDon’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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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 two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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