To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
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Quotes by Mark Twain
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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