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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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear
�Classic�. A book which people praise and don't read
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written
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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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