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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Mark Twain
    “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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    Mark Twain
    “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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    Mark Twain
    “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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    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
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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
    “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: morals
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    Mark Twain
    “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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    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
    “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: education
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    Mark Twain
    “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-facts
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    Mark Twain
    “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: starting, working
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    Mark Twain
    “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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    Mark Twain
    “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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    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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  • #18
    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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    Lao Tzu
    “Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
    ― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching
    tags: philosophy, wayfinding
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    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: life, travel
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    Lao Tzu
    “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, integrity, self-reliance, self-respect
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    Lao Tzu
    “Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: time
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    Lao Tzu
    “Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
    ― Lao Tzu
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    Lao Tzu
    “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: courage, death, inspirational, life, moral-courage, real-life
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    Lao Tzu
    “Silence is a source of Great Strength.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: silence
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  • #26
    Lao Tzu
    “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: attributed-no-source, music
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    Lao Tzu
    “The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching
    tags: aphorism, philosophy, proverb
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    Lao Tzu
    “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
    ― Lao Tzu
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  • #29
    Lao Tzu
    “To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
    ― Lao Tse
    tags: knowledge-wisdom
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    Lao Tzu
    “A leader is best
    When people barely know he exists
    Of a good leader, who talks little,
    When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
    They will say, “We did this ourselves.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: good-leader, leader, leaders, people
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