Quote by Mark Twain
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. - Mar

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. – Mark Twain

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. – Mark Twain

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Habits
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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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Mind
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All say, “How hard it is that we have to die” – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. – Mark Twain

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I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success. – Steve Coogan

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My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. – Giacomo Casanova

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Success

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school. – Damian Lewis

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Success

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning. – Mikhail Lermontov

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