More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
  2. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
  3. There is something worse than ignorance, and that's knowing what ain't so.
  4. Every generalization is false, including this one.
  5. What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
  6. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.
  7. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
  8. I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.

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