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 TWAINSanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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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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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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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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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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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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