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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler
    tags: books, reading
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
    tags: discipline, freedom
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
    tags: 49
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “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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    Mark Twain
    “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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    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-reading
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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.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, inspirational
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    Mark Twain
    “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: education
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    Mark Twain
    “A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bank, bankers, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: history
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    Mark Twain
    “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem
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    Mark Twain
    “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “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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    Mark Twain
    “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bravery, character, courage, moral-courage
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    Mark Twain
    “Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
    ― Mark Twain, Notebook
    tags: education
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    Mark Twain
    “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.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: anger
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    Mark Twain
    “Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: blush, wordplay
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  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “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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    Mark Twain
    “I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: healthy-living, humor, revenge
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    Mark Twain
    “It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humorous
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    Jane Austen
    “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    Jane Austen
    “One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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    Jane Austen
    “There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    Jane Austen
    “Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
    ― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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    George Santayana
    “There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.”
    ― George Santayana
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    George Santayana
    “Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.”
    ― George Santayana
    tags: nature
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