“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
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“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
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“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
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“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
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“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
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“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
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“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
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“Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.”
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Mark Twain (American writer)
(November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”