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Quote by Mark Twain
We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. – Mark Twain

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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. – Mark Twain

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Futility
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Mark Twain
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Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed. – Mark Twain

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Gambling
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain

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Books
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So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance. – Attributed to Richard M. Nixon

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Self

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. – Hindustani Proverb

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Self

Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again. – Chinese inscription cited by Thoreau in Walden

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Self

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved — the site of it by architect could not again be proved. – Emily Dickinson

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It is better to wear out than to rust out. – Richard Cumberland

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