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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Adversity
Mark Twain

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Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
Politicians and Politics
Mark Twain

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Trials
Mark Twain

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I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Evolution
Mark Twain

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I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.
Words
Mark Twain

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I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
Vice
Mark Twain

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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
Ignorance
Mark Twain

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
Humankind
Mark Twain

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In his private heart no man much respects himself.
Respectability
Mark Twain

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In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
Politicians and Politics
Mark Twain

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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
Laughter
Mark Twain

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Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Humankind
Mark Twain

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Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
Blush
Mark Twain

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
Thoughts and Thinking
Mark Twain

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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Creativity
Mark Twain

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Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.
Envy
Mark Twain

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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
Truth
Mark Twain

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So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
Uncategorised
Mark Twain

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The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.
Laughter
Mark Twain

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The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
Books - Reading
Mark Twain

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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
Modesty
Mark Twain

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The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Originality
Mark Twain

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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
Music
Mark Twain

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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
Providence
Mark Twain

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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Humankind
Mark Twain

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun