Mark Twain

“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.” Mark Twain

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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

“Don't let schooling interfere with your education.” Mark Twain

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“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.” Mark Twain

“Don't tell fish stories where the people know you, but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.” Mark Twain

“Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.” Mark Twain

Trouble

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” Mark Twain

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“Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.” Mark Twain

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“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.” Mark Twain

Heaven

“Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.” Mark Twain

“Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.” Mark Twain

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“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.” Mark Twain

Good

“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.” Mark Twain

Truth

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” Mark Twain

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“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” Mark Twain

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.” Mark Twain

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“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.” Mark Twain

Heaven

“God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.” Mark Twain

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“Golf is a good walk spoiled.” Mark Twain

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“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.” Mark Twain

Good

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” Mark Twain

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“Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” Mark Twain

Care

“Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.” Mark Twain

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“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.” Mark Twain

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“Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.” Mark Twain

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” Mark Twain

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“I can live for two months on a good compliment.” Mark Twain

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“I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.” Mark Twain

“I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.” Mark Twain

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“I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me. I always feel that they have not said enough.” Mark Twain

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