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Mark Twain: “The person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times as much as a person who hasn't.”

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Mark Twain: “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

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Mark Twain: “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

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Mark Twain: “I have my values, and if you don't like them, well I've got some others.”

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Mark Twain: “The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him.”

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Mark Twain: “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.”

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Mark Twain: “Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.”

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Mark Twain: “There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.”

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Mark Twain: “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.”

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Mark Twain: “Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

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Mark Twain: “The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.”

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Mark Twain: “The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.”

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Mark Twain: “Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”

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Mark Twain: “A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.”

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Mark Twain: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

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Mark Twain: “We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can “show off” and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off. All our passengers are paying strict attention to this thing, with the end in view which I have mentioned. The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass.”

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Mark Twain: “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

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Mark Twain: “Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.”

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Mark Twain: “Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.”

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Mark Twain: “Citizenship is what makes a republic -- monarchies can get along without it.”

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Mark Twain: “Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.”

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Mark Twain: “If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”

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Mark Twain: “The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.”

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Mark Twain: “First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards.”

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Mark Twain: “The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.”

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Mark Twain: “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”

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Mark Twain: “Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.”

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Mark Twain: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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.”

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Mark Twain: “Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.”

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Mark Twain: “December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, Aprll, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.”

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