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 TWAINIf Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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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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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
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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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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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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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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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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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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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