More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
  2. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.
  3. America is built on a tilt and everything loose slides to California.
  4. I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
  5. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
  6. I have found solace in profanity unexcelled even by prayer.
  7. There is something worse than ignorance, and that's knowing what ain't so.
  8. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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