"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

Twain, Mark on forgiveness
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"Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy."

Twain, Mark on forgiveness
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."

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

Twain, Mark on example
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"I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."

Twain, Mark on evolution
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"We are all alike, on the inside."

Twain, Mark on equality
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"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."

Twain, Mark on envy
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on desire
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"A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval."

Twain, Mark on aid and assistance
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"Sometimes too much drink is barely enough."

Twain, Mark on alcohol and alcoholism
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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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"Be good and you will be lonely."

Twain, Mark on loneliness
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"A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants."

Twain, Mark on lies and lying
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"Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least."

Twain, Mark on laughter
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"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

Twain, Mark on knowledge
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"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so."

Twain, Mark on knowledge
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"In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that."

Twain, Mark on journalism and journalists
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"When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

Twain, Mark on insanity
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"Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now."

Twain, Mark on insanity
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"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."

Twain, Mark on impossibility
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"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."

Twain, Mark on honor
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"The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."

Twain, Mark on health
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"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy."

Twain, Mark on happiness
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"To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times."

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

Twain, Mark on golf
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"It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."

Twain, Mark on america
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"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."

Twain, Mark on duty
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