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.
MARK TWAINThe secret to getting ahead is getting started.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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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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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
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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.
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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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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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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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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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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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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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