Mark Twain

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"Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees."	Wisdom
"The best defense against logic is ignorance."	Wisdom
"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."	Success, Life
"Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever."	Quotations
"The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."	Age
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."	Age
"In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer."	Anger
"I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me."	Animals
"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others."	Love, Confidence
"We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles."	Love, Conformity
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."	Courage
"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog."	Education
"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary."	God, Emotion
"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."	Food
"But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface."	Food
"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."	Government, Forgiveness
"God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins."	God
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."	Happiness
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not."	Health
"Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for - annually, not oftener - if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man's side, consequently on the Lord's side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments."	Holidays
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