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Mark Twain (1835–1910) was an American writer, humorist, and lecturer. His novels and essays on human nature, adventure, and perseverance remain widely read and quoted.
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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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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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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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.
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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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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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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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