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"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
46+ Quotes by Mark Twain
A curated collection of 46 inspirational quotes by Mark Twain on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
— Mark Twain
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"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
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"Don't let schooling interfere with your education."
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"I never let schooling interfere with my education."
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"All generalizations are false, including this one."
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"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."
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"I've never let my school interfere with my education."
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
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"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
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"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
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"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."
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"By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."
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"All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure."
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"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
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"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
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"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear."
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"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
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"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear."
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"Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life."
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"Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life."
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"Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life."
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"Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life."
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"Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life."
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"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
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"It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog."
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
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"Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms."
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"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
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"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."
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"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
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"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
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"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
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"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did do."
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."
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"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy."
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"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."