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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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More quotes by Mark Twain
Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.
Mark Twain
It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
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Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.
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when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.
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A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.
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When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.
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School gets in the way of my learning.
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A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.
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I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me he can't be any worse.
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We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.
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Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.
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One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.
Mark Twain
Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.
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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.
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