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Mark Twain

Today is Mark Twain's birthday (1835-1910).

Now there is one wise and perceptive dude.

Some great things he said:

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything.

Love your enemy; it will scare the hell out of them.

Get the facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Golf is a good walk spoild.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.  The world owes you nothing.  It was here first.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Fiction is obligated to stick to possibilities.  Truth isn't.

I'm opposed to millionaries, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. 

Don't let school interfere with your education.

Don't part with your illusions.  When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Ralph's Wisdom

Some great thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), philosopher, author/poet, naturalist, transcendentalist, whose birthday we celebrate today (May 25).

What you are comes to you.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Little minds have little worries; big minds have no time for worries.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Every wall is a door.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children ... to leave the world a better place ... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.  This is to have succeeded.