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#1

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology

19817 likes

#2

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

18223 likes

#3

“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

8281 likes

#4

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: patriotism, politics

5992 likes

#5

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

tags: age

5508 likes

#6

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books-reading

4799 likes

#7

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

tags: happiness, sanity

4455 likes

#8

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

tags: courage

3353 likes

#9

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

tags: inspirational, kindness

3288 likes

#10

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
― Mark Twain

tags: happiness

2775 likes

#11

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

tags: humor, success

2356 likes

#12

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

tags: laughter

1051 likes

#13

“He stood a few meters from the step and spoke with great conviction, great joy.
"Alles ist Scheisse," he announced.
All is shit.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: rudy-steiner, the-book-thief

164 likes

#14

“She was still clutching the book. She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: books, death, reading

9 likes

#15

“If your eyes could speak, what would they say”
― Max Vandenburg "The Book Thief"

tags: the-book-thief

64 likes

#16

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: truth

7116 likes

#17

“I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.”
― Virginia Woolf

190 likes

#18

“You’re not going to change the world unless you hang with people who want to change the world too.”
― B.B. Alston, Amari and the Night Brothers

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