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#1

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#2

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#3

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#4

“Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?”
― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

tags: inspirational

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#5

“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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#6

“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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#7

“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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#8

“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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#9

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

tags: courage

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#10

“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.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, inspirational

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#11

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

tags: inspirational, kindness

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#12

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

tags: darkness, human-nature, moon

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#13

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

tags: history

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#14

“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”
― Mark Twain

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#15

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
― Mark Twain

tags: appreciation, companionship, joy

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#16

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

tags: censorship, fallibility, humor, sin

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#17

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

tags: laughter

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#18

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
― Mark Twain, Notebook

tags: education

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#19

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: honors

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#20

“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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#21

“The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”
― Mark Twain

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#22

“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”
― Mark Twain

tags: enemy, friendship

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#23

“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”
― Mark Twain

tags: actions, deeds

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#24

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
― Mark Twain

tags: remaining-silent, reticence

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#25

“There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.”
― Mark Twain

tags: honesty

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#26

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
― Mark Twain

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#27

“A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies

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#28

“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..”
― Mark Twain

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#29

“Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.”
― Mark Twain

tags: on-writing, writing-advice

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#30

“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, humor, on-writing, wit, writing

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