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    Ernest Hemingway
    “I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
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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
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
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  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
    7534 likes

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  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: heartbreak
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  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, politics
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  • #8
    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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  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, men, women
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  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: happiness, sanity
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  • #11
    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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  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: education
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  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, success
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  • #14
    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
    “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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  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: laughter
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  • #17
    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
    “Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, rake
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
    ― Friedrich W. Nietzsche
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  • #20
    “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
    Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
    ― John Anster, The First Part Of Goethe's Faust
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
    tags: conduct-of-life, life, self-confidence, self-trust
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
    tags: faust, goethe, mephistopheles
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  • #23
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
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  • #24
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
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  • #25
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Whatever is the lot of humankind
    I want to taste within my deepest self.
    I want to seize the highest and the lowest,
    to load its woe and bliss upon my breast,
    and thus expand my single self titanically
    and in the end go down with all the rest.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
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  • #26
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Everything transitory is but an image.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
    tags: enlightenment
    63 likes

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  • #27
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Did we force ourselves on you, or you on us?”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
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  • #28
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
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  • #29
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “... all life rests on appearance, art, illusion, optics, the need for perspective and for error...”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “For the true poet the metaphor is not a rhetorical figure but a representative image that really hovers before him in place of a concept. For him, the character is not a whole laboriously assembled from individual traits, but a person, insistently living before his eyes, distinguished from the otherwise identical vision of the painter by his continuous life and action.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
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