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 TWAINI’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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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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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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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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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
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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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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 put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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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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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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