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“He did not know, and perhaps this doctor did. And he could not take the chance of pitting his certain ignorance against this man's possible knowledge. He was trapped as his people were always trapped, and would be until, as he had said, they could be sure that the things in the books ere really in the books.”
― John Steinbeck, The Pearl

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

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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“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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“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

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#5

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war

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#6

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
― Mark Twain

tags: heartbreak

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“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

tags: books, truth

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#8

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

tags: age

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#9

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

tags: books-reading

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#10

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, men, women

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#11

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

tags: happiness, sanity

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“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance

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“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.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

tags: travel

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“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

tags: clothing

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#15

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

tags: imagination

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“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, newspapers

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#17

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
― Mark Twain

tags: morals

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#18

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

tags: inspirational, kindness

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#19

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
― Mark Twain

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#20

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

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#21

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

tags: inventing-humor

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#22

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, philosophy, religion

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#23

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

tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem

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#24

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

tags: humor, success

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#25

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain

tags: starting, working

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#26

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
― Mark Twain

tags: conscience, humor, memory

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#27

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor-facts

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#28

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain

tags: birth, born, day, important, life, reasons-why, true

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“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
― Mark Twain

tags: animals, cats, dogs, grace, reticence

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“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
― Mark Twain

tags: austen, criticism, reading, writing

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