More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
  2. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
  3. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.
  4. I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly
  5. Every generalization is false, including this one.
  6. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
  7. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
  8. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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