Success quotes by Mark Twain

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"I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why."
"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed..."
"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."
"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."
"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."
"Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brain. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat - at least, not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is about your fair usual average, I should judge that a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling-sized whales."
"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
"The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal."
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."