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#1

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#2

“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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#3

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

tags: greatness

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#4

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor-satan

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#5

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
― Mark Twain

tags: age

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#6

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

tags: happiness, sanity

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#7

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
― Mark Twain

tags: courage

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#8

“It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
― Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse

tags: bravery, dog, famous, inspirational, misattributed-dwight-eisenhower, misattributed-mark-twain, valour

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#9

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain

tags: inspirational, kindness

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#10

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

tags: darkness, human-nature, moon

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#11

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor-facts

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#12

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, success

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#13

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”
― Mark Twain

tags: inspirational

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#14

“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”
― Mark Twain

tags: laughter

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#15

“Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”
― Mark Twain

tags: advice-for-daily-living, rake

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#16

“There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.”
― Mark Twain

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#17

“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
― Mark Twain

tags: imagination, reality

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#18

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain

tags: birth, born, day, important, life, reasons-why, true

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#19

“Be good and you will be lonesome.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

tags: goodness, loneliness

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#20

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

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#21

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
― Mark Twain

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#22

“There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting.”
― Mark Twain

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#23

“Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.”
― Mark Twain

tags: whiskey-war

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#24

“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”
― Mark Twain

tags: religion

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#25

“There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer them, or turn them into literature.”
― Mark Twain

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#26

“Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.”
― Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger and Other Curious Tales

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#27

“I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

tags: alienation, alone, belonging, jonah, life, lois-lowry, lonely, place, sorry, strange, stupid, the-giver, wisdom

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#28

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

tags: loneliness, memories, pain, share

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#29

“I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. 'I wish we still had that,' he whispered. 'Of course,' he added quickly, 'I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live.'

...'Still,' he said slowly, almost to himself, 'I did like the light they made. And the warmth.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

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#30

“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

tags: dystopia, future, life, sci-fi, the-giver, utopia

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