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Variant: Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

“Names are not always what they seem.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene”

Mark Twain book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 210.
Context: For many years I believed that I remembered helping my grandfather drink his whisky toddy when I was six weeks old, but I do not tell about that any more, now; I am grown old, and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.

“[Whose_property]Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the State die? Oh no.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Osteopathy” (1901), in Mark Twain's Speeches, p. 253 http://books.google.com/books?id=jmhaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA253&dq=%22Whose+property+is+my+body%22 <br class="br">Source: Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

“I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“I am only human, although I regret it.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.”

Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“We can't all be heros because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“How empty is theory in the presence of fact!”