Tag: Mark Twain
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Mark Twain
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Mark Twain
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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
Mark Twain
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How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
Mark Twain
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It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
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Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.
Mark Twain