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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well, but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. -Mark Twain.

He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.

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.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the people involved.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water.