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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Necessity is the mother of taking chances
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one
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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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