Top 10 Mark Twain quotes

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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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

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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.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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