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Start it at no particular time of your life wander at your free will all over your life talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the what is next, of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.
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But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!
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Always tell the truth then you don't have to remember anything
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The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.
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Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor
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Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.
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The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.
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There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.
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Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.
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