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Mark Twain Quotes

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.""To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.""Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.""Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.""Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.""Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.""Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.""The funniest things are forbidden.""The lack of money is the root of all evil.""The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.""If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.""Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.""Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.""There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.""The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremist pleasure in life.""When in doubt, tell the truth.""The secret of getting ahead is getting started.""To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.""Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.""A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes."
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