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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.
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We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.
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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
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At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.
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A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.
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After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.
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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.
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No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.
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There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.
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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
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My own luck has been curious all my literary life I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
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