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An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in 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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What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!
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Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.
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I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.
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Comedy keeps the heart sweet but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.
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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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In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
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Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory
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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome variety is pleasing.
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Be good and you will be lonely.
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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent then he would have eaten the serpent.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live with awareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.
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Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles
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If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.
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