"Where there is much freedom there is much error."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on freedom   

"In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?"

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

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Familiarity breeds contempt; and children."

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

Twain, Mark on family
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"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

Twain, Mark on faith
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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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"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."

Twain, Mark on exercise
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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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"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

Twain, Mark on adversity
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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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"He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think -- yes, it was three; I attended their funerals."

Twain, Mark on doctors
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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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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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

Twain, Mark on forgiveness
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"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her."

Twain, Mark on fortune
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"Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody."

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

Twain, Mark on aid and assistance
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"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. [About a politician who had recently died]"

Twain, Mark on funerals
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"Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief."

Twain, Mark on funerals
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"The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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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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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either."

Twain, Mark on freedom
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"We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world."

Twain, Mark on death
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"He liked to like people, therefore people liked him."

Twain, Mark on popularity
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"You can't pray a lie."

Twain, Mark on prayer
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"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."

Twain, Mark on prayer
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"A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain."

Twain, Mark on bankers and banking
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"A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty."

Twain, Mark on babies   

"What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before."

Twain, Mark on plagiarism
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"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist."

Twain, Mark on optimism
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