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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
United States
30 Nov 1835 // 21 Apr 1910
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On Eyes:
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus
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On Play:
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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On Book:
Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself
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On Wit:
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation
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On Majority:
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect
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On Age:
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old
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On Madness:
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained
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On Doubt:
When in doubt tell the truth
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On Youth:
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not
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On Deceit:
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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