Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark TwainThe best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Mark TwainTag: happiness
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!
Mark TwainThe gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it...
Mark TwainThere are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and
shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you
know ain't so'.
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.
Mark TwainTag: music
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
Mark TwainTag: cats
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark TwainThe government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
Mark TwainTag: government
I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Mark TwainTag: humor
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