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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Category: Advice Author: Mark Twain
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Category: Age Author: Mark Twain
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
Category: Age Author: Mark Twain
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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
Category: Age Author: Mark Twain
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Category: Age Author: Mark Twain
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Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink.
Category: Alcohol Author: Mark Twain
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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
Category: Anger Author: Mark Twain
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When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
Category: Anger Author: Mark Twain
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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.
Category: Animals and Pets Author: Mark Twain
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Mark Twain
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Mark Twain
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Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made [man] is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Mark Twain
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I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Mark Twain
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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
Category: Babies Author: Mark Twain
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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.
Category: Bicycling Author: Mark Twain
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Mark Twain
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Mark Twain
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Category: Carpe Diem Author: Mark Twain
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Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Category: Carpe Diem Author: Mark Twain
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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
Category: Cats Author: Mark Twain
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