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 TWAINReality can be beaten with enough imagination.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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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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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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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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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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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 right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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