Born in 1835, Mark Twain worked in different professions - printer and journalist, steam boat pilot, gold and silver miner, a newspaper editor, author and publisher.

I have always been inspired by his lifestyle and quotes. I have put some of his thoughts that I got inspired.

Inspiring Quotes

• I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher. 

• Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. 

• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. 

• Silence is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can read. 

• The difference between a right word and an almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning-bug.

• The human race consists of one effective weapon and that is laughter.

• When in doubt, tell the truth

• Familiarity brings contempt... and children

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New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. We shall also reflect pleasantly upon how we did the same old thing last year about this time. However, go in, community. New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls, and humbug resolutions, and we wish you to enjoy it with a looseness suited to the greatness of the occasion.

(Excerpt from a letter written by Mark Twain)