1. Mark Twain - “Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.”

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2. Mark Twain - “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

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3. Mark Twain - “Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.”

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4. Mark Twain - “Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.”

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5. Mark Twain - “It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

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6. Mark Twain - “Wagner's music is better than it sounds.”

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7. Mark Twain - “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

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8. Mark Twain - “Golf is a good walk spoiled.”

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9. Mark Twain - “God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.”

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10. Mark Twain - “I don't give a damn for a man who can spell a word only one way.”

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11. Mark Twain - “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”

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12. Mark Twain - “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”

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13. Mark Twain - “Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for 'the universal brotherhood of man' - with his mouth.”

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14. Mark Twain - “Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.”

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15. Mark Twain - “Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”

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16. Mark Twain - “Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.”

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17. Mark Twain - “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

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18. Mark Twain - “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

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19. Mark Twain - “In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.”

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20. Mark Twain - “It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”

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21. Mark Twain - “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

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22. Mark Twain - “We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.”

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23. Mark Twain - “I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”

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24. Mark Twain - “All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.”

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25. Mark Twain - “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”

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