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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Topic: Life
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There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain.
Topic: Life
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Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Topic: Life
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Topic: Life
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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Topic: Literary
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Topic: Literary
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Topic: Literature
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Be good and you will be lonely.
Topic: Loneliness
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Be good and you will be lonely.
Topic: Lonliness
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Topic: Loyalty
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There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Topic: Lying
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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
Topic: Majority
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All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
Topic: Man
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Topic: Manners
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It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
Topic: Manners
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Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
Topic: Materialism
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
Topic: Men and Women
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I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Topic: Mind
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A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing by it.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they were made or just happened.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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I never let schooling interfere with my education.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Topic: Mistakes
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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
Topic: Moderation
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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.
Topic: Modesty
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Topic: Mothers
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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Topic: Music
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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.
Topic: Music
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Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
Topic: Obscurity
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It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Topic: Opinion
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
Topic: Optimism
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The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Topic: Originality
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What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
Topic: Originality
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The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
Topic: Perseverance
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Topic: Personality
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Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.
Topic: Please title this page. (envy.html)
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Topic: Politics / Government
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.
Topic: Politics / Government
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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
Topic: Politics / Government
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Topic: Possibilities
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I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Topic: Praise
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The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Topic: Prejudice
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To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
Topic: Promises
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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
Topic: Prosperity
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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
Topic: Providence
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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.
Topic: Prudence
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
Topic: Quantity
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Topic: Reform
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The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself.
Topic: Reform
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
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