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    Mark Twain
    “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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    David Crockett
    “You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.”
    ― Davy Crockett
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God.

    Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you…”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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    David Crockett
    “You can all go to hell; I will go to Texas”
    ― David Crockett
    tags: hell, life, texas
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    David Crockett
    “Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.”
    ― Davy Crockett
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    David Crockett
    “I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them. ”
    ― David Crockett
    tags: ideals, loyalty, politics
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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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    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 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
    “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
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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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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    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    ― Markus Herz
    tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints
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    Mark Twain
    “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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    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
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, classic, reading
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    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, politics
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    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
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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
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, knowledge
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    David Crockett
    “We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
    ”
    ― David Crockett
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    David Crockett
    “Be always sure you are right, then go ahead.”
    ― Davy Crockett
    tags: davy-crockett, right
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    David Crockett
    “... A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.”
    ― David Crockett
    tags: autobiography, marriage
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    David Crockett
    “It was nonsense to talk about its being a sacrifice to come there; for if it were, they would not see so many grasping to be members of Congress. ”
    ― David Crockett
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    David Crockett
    “The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man”
    ― David Crockett
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    David Crockett
    “Know your right, then go ahead.”
    ― Davy Crockett
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    David Crockett
    “Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.”
    ― David Crockett
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