Mark Twain

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"I never let schooling interfere with my education."	Education
"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."	Sleep
"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."	Time
"There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry."	Food
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."	Success, Joy
"The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all."	Wisdom
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."	Comedy, Honesty
"It is better to have people think you a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."	Wisdom
"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
"Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees."	Wisdom
"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."	Success, Life
"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary."	God, Emotion
"We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles."	Love, Conformity
"Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so."	Comedy, Honesty
"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."	Success, Insults
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."	Anti-God, Books
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."	Success, Insults
"There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad."	Fear
"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."	Food
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true."	Fear
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Forgiveness	God	Government
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Sleep	Success	Talent
Taxes	Time	War
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