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«All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Confidence,
Ignorance,
Needs,
Success
| Keywords:
and then, confidence, ignorance, in this, sure, This Life
«The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
determine, function, obey, orders, originate, originate in, originating, patriot, prerogative, prerogatives, servant, temporary, the government
«If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the difference between dog and man.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
dog bite, pick, pick up, prosperous, starves, starving
«I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
As It Happens, back, backed up, backing, back out, back to back, better, bettered, bettering, betters, find, from way back, further, furthered, furthering, furthers, furthest, go, go back, happened, Happened before, I go, On Our Backs, take back, they, things, were
«Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
dissipation, highest, intellectual, ITS, misname, misnamed, pleasure, pleasuring, reward
«Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.»
«A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
classic, praise, The Classics
«We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
all, call, call at, call out, call up, certain, In the, live, live in, principles, protection, protections, The Calling
«I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Confidence
| Keywords:
confidence man, no confidence, particle, redeeming, redeems, vices
«It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.»
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