Mark Twain

(80 votes)   The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

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(605 votes)   Be good and you will be lonely.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(588 votes)   Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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(566 votes)   A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

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(539 votes)   Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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(522 votes)   Pity is for living, envy is for dead.

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(496 votes)   The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

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(475 votes)   The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

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(467 votes)   I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

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(467 votes)   What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

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(451 votes)   Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

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(450 votes)   It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble!

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(419 votes)   If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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(409 votes)   Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

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(407 votes)   That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.

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