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Twain, Mark

"April 1 is the day upon which we are reminded what we are on the other 364."

"Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to."

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."

"Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."

"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."

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."

"Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to."

"The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves."

"Be good and you will be lonesome."

"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist."

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

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practise either of them."

"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right."

"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter."