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- Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Diaries of Adam and Eve
- The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?
- Betty White, Mark Twain Prize, 2010
- Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Innocents Abroad
- When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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