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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It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. – Mark Twain

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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. – Samuel Johnson

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I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really. – Treat Williams

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer. – Tom Peters

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The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and – just as the Tea Party did – it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point. – Eliot Spitzer

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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. – Antisthenes

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Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. – Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942

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