1. Mark Twain - “Warm summer sun, shine kindly here; Warm southern wind, blow softly here; Green sod above, lie light, lie light — Good night, dear heart, good night, good night.”

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2. Mark Twain - “We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we had ever invented — human liberty.”

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3. Mark Twain - “Without fools the rest of us could not succeed.”

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4. Mark Twain - “A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”

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5. Mark Twain - “He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.”

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6. Mark Twain - “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries of life disappear and life stands explained.”

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7. Mark Twain - “If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”

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8. Mark Twain - “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth.”

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9. Mark Twain - “To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.”

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10. Mark Twain - “You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.”

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11. Mark Twain - “It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.”

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12. Mark Twain - “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”

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13. Mark Twain - “October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.”

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14. Mark Twain - “There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”

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15. Mark Twain - “Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.”

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16. Mark Twain - “Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.”

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17. Mark Twain - “The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.”

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18. Mark Twain - “Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.”

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19. Mark Twain - “Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”

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20. Mark Twain - “I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.”

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21. Mark Twain - “Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.”

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22. Mark Twain - “I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.”

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23. Mark Twain - “Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.”

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24. Mark Twain - “Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.”

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25. Mark Twain - “Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.”

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