Mark Twain Quotes Page 2

Every person is a book, each year a chapter.
Mark Twain
Inspirational Quotes

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
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Laughter

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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Imagination

Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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Worry

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Motivational

Always obey your parents when they are present.
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Parents

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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Joy

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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Life Quotes

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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Grief

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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Love

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.
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Question

Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.
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Greatness

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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Possibilities

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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Encouraging

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one’s head.
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Positive Thinking Quotes

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Courage

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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Random Quotes

I can last two months on a good compliment.
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Good

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
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Success

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
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Funny Quotes about Life

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
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Funny Quotes

It is good to obey all the rules when you’re young, so you’ll have the strength to break them when you’re old.
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Age

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
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Birthday

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of booky teaching, but of experience.
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Teacher

A man’s private thought can never be a lie; what he thinks, is to him the truth, always.
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Honesty

Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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Habit

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
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Smile Quotes

Synergy – the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
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Work

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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Time

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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Words of Encouragement

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Death

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.
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Greatness

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
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Happiness

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen.
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Fate

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
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Opportunity

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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Action

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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Truth

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
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Appreciation

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