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About Mark Twain

Mark Twain was a novelist, autobiographer, and author. He was born 30 November 1835, in Florida (Missouri, United States of America) He died on 21 April 1910 at Redding (United States of America, Connecticut)

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Inspirational Mark Twain Quotes About Life

  1. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” Mark Twain

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  2. “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?” – Mark Twain
  3. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).” – Mark Twain
  4. “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” – Mark Twain
  5. “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” – Mark Twain
  6. “′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read.” – Mark Twain
  7. “It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.” – Mark Twain
  8. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain
  9. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
  10. “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” – Mark Twain
  11. “When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.” – Mark Twain
  12. “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.” – Mark Twain

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  13. “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
  14. “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.” – Mark Twain
  15. “Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” – Mark Twain
  16. “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” – Mark Twain
  17. “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.” – Mark Twain
  18. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain
  19. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain
  20. “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.” – Mark Twain
  21. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
  22. “Good judgment is the result of experience and experiences the result of bad judgment.” – Mark Twain
  23. “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” – Mark Twain
  24. “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” – Mark Twain
  25. “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Mark Twain
  26. “Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.” – Mark Twain
  27. “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.” – Mark Twain
  28. “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce.” – Mark Twain
  29. “Don’t wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality” – Mark Twain
  30. “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” – Mark Twain
  31. “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” – Mark Twain
  32. “Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.” – Mark Twain
  33. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain
  34. “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” – Mark Twain

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  35. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain
  36. “Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” – Mark Twain
  37. “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
  38. “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
  39. “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.” – Mark Twain
  40. “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.” –  Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It.
  41. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
  42. “The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.” – Mark Twain
  43. “A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly-revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?” – Mark Twain
  44. “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
  45. “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – Mark Twain

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  46. “I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” – Mark Twain
  47. “You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?” – Mark Twain
  48. “The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.” – Mark Twain
  49. “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.” – Mark Twain
  50. “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.” – Mark Twain
  51. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
  52. “Learn to ride a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.”- Mark Twain.


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