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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the ___, it is time to pause and reflect.
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The report of my ___ was an exaggeration.
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A ___ is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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Good friends, good books, and a ___ conscience: this is the ideal life.
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good ___ speech.
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When we remember we are all ___, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Familiarity breeds contempt — and ___.
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Man is the only animal that ___. Or needs to.
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Facts are stubborn things, but ___ are more pliable.
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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us ___ it.
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In the first place God made ___. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a ___ and a seal.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their ___.
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Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to ___.
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To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler – and less ___.
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It takes a heap of ___ to write a good non___.
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An idea is the feat of association and the height of it is a good ___.
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Nothing so needs reforming as ___ people's habits.
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a ___.
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There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is ___.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a ___.
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It was wonderful to find ___, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
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Education: The path from cocky ignorance to ___ uncertainty.
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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast ___ of their knowledge.
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It's easier to ___ people than to convince them they have been ___ed.
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Golf is a good walk ___.
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good ___.
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___ merely indicate where smiles have been.
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Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great ___.
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Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself ___.
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A baby is an inestimable blessing and ___.
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Under certain circumstances, ___ provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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I don't like to commit myself about ___ – you see, I have friends in both places.
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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with ___.
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Name the greatest of all the inventors. ___.
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Get your facts first, and then you can ___ them as much as you please.
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Necessity is the mother of taking ___.
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___ is something we think of twenty four hours too late.
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The coldest ___ I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a ___.
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All you need in this life is ___ and confidence; then success is sure.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed ___.
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It is easier to stay ___ than get ___.
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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of ___.
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The best way to ___ yourself is to try to ___ someone else up.
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of ___.
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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to ___ the mental apparatus.
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Drag your ___ away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to ___ it with.
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There’s always something about your ___ that displeases even your best friends.
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Never do wrong when people are ___.
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I shall never use ___ except in discussing house rent and taxes.
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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you ___.
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When I was younger, I could ___ anything, whether it had happened or not.
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Quotes
Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Mark Twain?
→ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
→ The earth has music for those who listen.
→ Choose a lazy person to do a hard job because that person will find an easy way to do it.
→ An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
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→ Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
→ The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
→ What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.
→ Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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→ Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
→ Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
→ There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.
→ Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.
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One of these may be attributed to Mark Twain. Which one?
→ The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it.
→ Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
→ Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought a world empty of people just uninterrupted grass and a hare sitting up?
→ War is hell.
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→ Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
→ Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
→ Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
→ Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Mark Twain?
→ A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn’t make fun of another man’s cross-eyed aunt.
→ Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
→ Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
→ The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Mark Twain.
→ There are too many people, and too few human beings.
→ Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
→ Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
→ Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Mark Twain. Which one?
→ Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
→ Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
→ The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
→ It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
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→ There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
→ My works are like water. The works of the great masters are like wine. But everyone drinks water.
→ After all, the essential thing is not the shadow, but the body which casts it.
→ There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
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→ Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
→ No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
→ Aim at being loved without being admired.
→ The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.
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→ Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
→ When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
→ One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
→ The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Mark Twain.
→ It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man.
→ Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
→ Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.
→ A yawn is a silent shout.
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→ Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
→ The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
→ Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
→ Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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→ Genius is born, not paid.
→ It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
→ The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.
→ Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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→ Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.
→ There is less in this than meets the eye.
→ 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 rather not.
→ Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
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→ By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
→ Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.
→ The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.
→ There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
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→ Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
→ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
→ All is in your hands; therefore, wash them frequently.
→ In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
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→ Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch.
→ Going to church on Sunday does not make you a Christian any more than going into a garage makes you an automobile.
→ The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.
→ Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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One of the following quotes belongs to Mark Twain. Pick one.
→ If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
→ Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
→ The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
→ I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
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→ Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
→ God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
→ We have done so much with so little for so long, that now we can do anything with nothing.
→ I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Mark Twain?
→ It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
→ It is the best play I ever slept through.
→ A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn’t make fun of another man’s cross-eyed aunt.
→ He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
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→ You lose a lot of time hating people.
→ A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
→ Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
→ Never memorize something that you can look up.
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→ A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
→ Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
→ In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
→ Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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One of these may be attributed to Mark Twain. Which one?
→ Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
→ Anyhow, the hole in the doughnut is at least digestible.
→ The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
→ I often put boiling water in the freezer. Then whenever I need boiling water, all I have to do is defrost it.
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Which one of these belongs to Mark Twain?
→ Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.
→ Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
→ To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
→ The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
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→ Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.
→ It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
→ The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.
→ In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
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→ What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
→ Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
→ The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
→ Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Mark Twain. Which one?
→ There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
→ When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.
→ It is better to be faithful than famous.
→ There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.
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→ Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
→ If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
→ Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
→ All men of action are dreamers.
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→ My works are like water. The works of the great masters are like wine. But everyone drinks water.
→ The most terrifying thing is to accept yourself fully.
→ Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.
→ Complaining about a problem without proposing a solution is called whining.
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→ Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
→ A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
→ When angry count four; when very angry, swear.
→ Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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→ There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
→ A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
→ Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.
→ Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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→ When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
→ Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
→ Sometimes to remain silent is to lie since silence can be interpreted as assent.
→ Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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→ When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.
→ Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
→ A winner never whines.
→ The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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→ A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
→ Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
→ Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
→ If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
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→ The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
→ Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
→ People who pay for things never complain. It’s the guy that you give something to that you can’t please.
→ I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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→ It is the epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
→ You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
→ Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
→ If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
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→ Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
→ No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
→ One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
→ There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.
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One of the following quotes belongs to Mark Twain. Pick one.
→ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
→ For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
→ There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
→ A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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→ Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
→ Action expresses priorities.
→ I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
→ Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Mark Twain?
→ Truth is stranger than fiction.
→ The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
→ Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
→ Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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→ I hate women because they always know where things are.
→ If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
→ When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
→ Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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→ Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you're ready or not, to put this plan into action.
→ Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
→ Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
→ A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.
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→ Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
→ Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
→ If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
→ If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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→ The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
→ Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow’s too lazy to form an opinion.
→ Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
→ Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
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→ It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
→ Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do.
→ Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
→ Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
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→ Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
→ If you can dream it, you can do it.
→ Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
→ Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Mark Twain. Which one?
→ Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
→ Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
→ In reality, time stands still; it is we who are moving in the wrong direction.
→ It is wiser to find out than to suppose.
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→ The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
→ When in doubt, tell the truth.
→ You can tell the values of a nation by its advertisements.
→ If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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→ Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
→ Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
→ A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
→ Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
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Looks like Mark Twain is the author of one of these.
→ Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
→ Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
→ The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
→ The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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→ Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
→ With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
→ Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
→ Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
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→ Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
→ Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
→ No accident ever comes late; it always arrives precisely on time.
→ I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
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→ The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
→ Every ambitious would-be empire clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie, and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it!
→ You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
→ All a man can betray is his conscience.
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→ Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
→ Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
→ Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
→ It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
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→ What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
→ Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
→ Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
→ An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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→ Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
→ If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
→ Perfect grammar—persistent, continuous, sustained—is the fourth dimension, so to speak: many have sought it, but none has found it.
→ Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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→ Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
→ The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
→ Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
→ A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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→ The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
→ I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
→ Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
→ A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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→ Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
→ It is enough that the arrows fit exactly in the wounds that they have made.
→ You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
→ I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.
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→ The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
→ Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.
→ The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
→ We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
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→ No accident ever comes late; it always arrives precisely on time.
→ Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
→ If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
→ The future depends on what you do today.
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Select the quotation attributed to Mark Twain.
→ Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
→ To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
→ I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
→ If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.
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One of these may be attributed to Mark Twain. Which one?
→ Photograph: A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
→ The customer is always right.
→ Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
→ Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
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