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Quote by Mark Twain
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ough

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. – Mark Twain

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As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized! – Mark Twain

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work. – Mark Twain

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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. – Mark Twain

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The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering. – Virginia Woolf

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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. – Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820

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Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place. – Euripides

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Sometimes it’s harder to attain inner silence than outer silence. The dog stopped barking and the kids have gone to bed, but your mind has a lot to talk about and it knows you can’t pretend you’re not at home. – Terri Guillemets

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To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. – Proverb

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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. – H. L. Mencken

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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. – Victor Hugo

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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. – Ogden Nash

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