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«It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.»
«Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.»
«The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
distributed, distributes, Distributing, fooling, fools, lightning, many, right, there, there is, too, trouble
«Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
away, catch, catch on, catch up with, Did, disappointed, disappoints, discover, dream, explore, explored, explores, from the, harbor, harbored, harbors, into the wind, now, off, ones, safe, safes, safe harbor, sail, sails, The Catch, throw, throwing away, throw in, throw off, throw out, throw up, trade, traded, trade winds, twenties, twenty, winded, winds, wound up, years| Occasions:
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«It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.»
«I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one»
«The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop»
«Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.»
«A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
adjective, adjectives, be, character, conversation, from, from the, habitually, in character, in use, learned, man, manned, mans, may, Mays, out of character, out of use, The, The Used, used up, uses, use up, using up
«All generalizations are false, including this one.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
all, false, falser, falsest, generalization, generalizations, including, one, this, this one
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