"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."

Twain, Mark on Success
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"Keep away from small 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."

Twain, Mark on Ambition
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"He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages."

Twain, Mark on Futility
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"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

Twain, Mark on Friends and Friendship
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on Fools and Foolishness
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"Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law."

Twain, Mark on Family
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"There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!"

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"I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."

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"The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."

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"I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough."

Twain, Mark on Compliments
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"Golf is a good walk spoiled."

Twain, Mark on Golf
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