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    Charles Brockden Brown
    “Death was a sweet relief for my present miseries, and I vehemently longed for its arrival.”
    ― Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
    tags: death
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    Samuel Johnson
    “I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
    ― Samuel Johnson
    tags: humor, humour, mankind, misanthropy
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    Samuel Johnson
    “I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II
    tags: books, conversation, erudition, reading, writing
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    Samuel Johnson
    “Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.”
    ― Samuel Johnson
    tags: night
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    Samuel Johnson
    “Hell is paved with good intentions.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
    tags: evil, good-intentions, hell, intentions
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    Samuel Johnson
    “I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”
    ― Samuel Johnson
    tags: apathy, literary-criticism, obscurity, writing
    131 likes

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    Samuel Johnson
    “You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.”
    ― Samuel Johnson
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    Samuel Johnson
    “It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.”
    ― Samuel Johnson
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    Mark Twain
    “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “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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    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
    “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
    “The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: animals, dogs, heaven, inspirational, man, religion
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    Mark Twain
    “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: sin, temptation
    845 likes

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  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: inspirational, positive, worries
    988 likes

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  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor
    813 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: imagination, reality
    757 likes

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  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
    ― Mark Twain, Notebook
    tags: education
    681 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “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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    Mark Twain
    “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “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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    Mark Twain
    “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
    3560 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: inspirational, kindness
    3298 likes

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  • #25
    “It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
    ― Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse
    tags: bravery, dog, famous, inspirational, misattributed-dwight-eisenhower, misattributed-mark-twain, valour
    2933 likes

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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
    “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: happiness
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    Mark Twain
    “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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    Mark Twain
    “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem
    2362 likes

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  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-facts
    1808 likes



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