Mark Twain

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• When in doubt, tell the truth.
• I can live for two months on a good compliment.
• If you can't get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
• Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
• When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
• Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel tht you, too, can become great.
• There are two times in a man's life when he shoud not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
  -Following the Equator
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear.