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Best Mark Twain Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You

It was not lively enough for a pleasure trip; but if we had only had a corpse it would have made a noble funeral excursion.

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can “show off” and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can’t shake off.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad.

Why will people be so stupid as to suppose themselves the only foreigners among a crowd of ten thousand persons?

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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"Diotima observes that people strive for immortal fame through virtuous deeds."

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

A leader... is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Telling somebody about your goal. Chances are, they'll either join you in pursuing it or at least support you.

The universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figure it out.

“Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.”

But we must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot; we must be calm and moderate, and consider the whole difficulty, and determine what is possible and just.

"Until philosophers are kings... and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, cities will never have rest from their evils."

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry… but it can introduce the idea that we may even become friends.”

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”