Quotes by Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

Lived from: 1835 - 1910

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 30 november 1835 Died: 21 april 1910

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  • By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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  • Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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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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  • Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
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  • Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
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  • Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.
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  • Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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  • Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
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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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  • Education consists mainly that what we have unlearned.
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  • Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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  • Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
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  • Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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  • Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
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  • Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.
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  • Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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  • Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
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  • Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
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