20 Motivational Quotes by Mark Twain

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Who was Mark Twain?

     Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Florida, Missouri, November 30, 1835 - Redding, Connecticut, April 21, 1910), better known by the pseudonym Mark Twain, was an American writer and humorist critical of racism. He is best known for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Greatest American Novel."

     Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later serve as an inspiration and setting for English sankanka, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. After working as a printer in several cities, he helped Orion, his older brother, with the administration of a newspaper. At the time, he held different roles, such as printer, typographer and columnist.

Mark Twain Quotes about life:

• "Education: The Path from Arrogant Ignorance to Miserable Uncertainty."
  

• "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up."

• "The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is madness teaches me to suspect that mine is, too."

• "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is certain."

• "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them all you want."

• "If animals could talk, the dog would be a clumsy, outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."

• "I have no right to criticize books, and I don't, except when I hate them. I often feel like criticizing Jane Austen, but her books drive me so crazy that I can't hide my frenzy from the reader; every time I start. Every time I read 'Pride and Prejudice,' I want to dig it up and beat it over the head with its own shinbone."

• "A banker is a guy who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it starts to rain."

• "Forgiveness is the fragrance that violet pours on the heel that crushed it."

• "The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why."

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Mark Twain Quotes for Reflection:

• "Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
  

• "The problem is not dying for a friend, but finding a friend worth dying for."

• "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."

• "Always do what's right. This will gratify half of humanity and surprise the other."

• "If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you are misinformed."

• "Everyone is a moon and has a dark side they never show anyone."

• "If you take a hungry dog ​​and make him prosperous, he won't bite you. That's the main difference between a dog and a man."

• "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

• "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society."

• "Traveling is fatal to prejudice, intolerance and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it a lot because of it. Broad, healthy and charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in a corner of the city. earth for a lifetime."

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