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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!
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Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.
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I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects were—for, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.
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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
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Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.
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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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I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses never, I believe, by people.
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Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.
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Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results
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A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.
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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.
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Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.
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We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.
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Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.
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It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.
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