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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: age
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    Mark Twain
    “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: morals
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    Mark Twain
    “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
    tags: writing
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    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: living, world
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    Mark Twain
    “I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor
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    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
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  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: courage
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    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: clothing
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  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor
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  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-reading
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  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, men, women
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  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.”
    ― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
    tags: cats, lesson
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  • #22
    Abraham H. Maslow
    “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
    ― Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being
    tags: assumptions, hammer, instrumentalism, problem-solving, psychology, science, temptation
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  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-children
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  • #24
    Mark Twain
    “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
    ― Mark Twain
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  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: starting, working
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  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: blush, wordplay
    486 likes



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