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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Emotion Inspirational One Liner Sincere
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
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Humour Man Savage World
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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Fiction Possible Stick StrAngry Truth
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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Death Die Fear Inspirational Life Live Man Prepare Time Travel
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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Decision Humour Mind
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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Honesty Lying Shoes Travel Truth World
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Life Live Owe World
I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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Humour Letter Time Writing
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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Deserve Honor Wisdom
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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Die Friendship Trouble Worth
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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Confidence Humour Man Philosophy Religion Suspect Teaching
I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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Book Criticize Except Hate
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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Eat Frog Funny Humour Morning
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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Create Disappointment Father Heaven Humour Man Monkey
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Brace Character Courage Curious Moral Physical World
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.
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Ambition Dreamss Greatness Hurt People Try

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