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“Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.”
― Barbara De Angelis

“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

“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
― Mark Twain

“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
― Mark Twain

“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”
― Mark Twain

“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
― Mark Twain

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain

“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

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”
― Mark Twain

“I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.”
― Mark Twain

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

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”
― Mark Twain

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

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

“Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality”
― Mark Twain

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.”
― Mark Twain

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”
― Mark Twain

“Familiarity breeds contempt and children.”
― Mark Twain

“Write what you know.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.”
― Mark Twain

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
― Mark Twain

“No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
― Gideon J. Tucker

“Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.”
― Mark Twain

“what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.”
― mark twain

“It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.”
― Mark Twain

“There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting.”
― Mark Twain

“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.”
― Mark Twain