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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
--Mark Twain's Notebook
--Mark Twain's Notebook
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Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.
--Mark Twain's Notebook
--Mark Twain's Notebook
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
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Patriot: The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
--More Maxims of Mark
--More Maxims of Mark
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People seem to think they are citizens of the Republican Party and that that is patriotism and sufficiently good patriotism. I prefer to be a citizen of the United States.
--Mark Twain's Notebook
--Mark Twain's Notebook
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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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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 any more.
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
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Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"--which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and--watch that basket!"
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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It is not likely that any complete life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person that lived it.
--More Maxims of Mark
--More Maxims of Mark
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Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
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Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled.
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Do not put off till tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well.
--More Maxims of Mark
--More Maxims of Mark
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When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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You can straighten a worm, but the crook is in him and only waiting.
--More Maxims of Mark
--More Maxims of Mark
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I write to please myself. No editor is so hard to satisfy as one's own standard.
--What I am Thankful For
--What I am Thankful For
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"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
I will add more when I find more that interest me.
