Samuel Langhorne Clemens
United States
30 Nov 1835 // 21 Apr 1910
Writer / Author
30 Nov 1835 // 21 Apr 1910
Writer / Author
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with
Golf is a good walk spoiled
Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
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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