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Cheer up—the worst is yet to come.

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Twain, Mark. Letter to Olivia Clemens. 19 Apr. 1894.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

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Twain, Mark. Letter to Mrs. Foote. 2 Dec. 1887.

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Anywhere is better than Paris. Paris the cold, Paris the drizzly, Paris the rainy, Paris the Damnable. More than a hundred years ago, somebody asked Quin, "Did you ever see such a winter in all your life before?" "Yes," said he, "last summer." I judge he spent his summer in Paris.

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Twain, Mark. Letter to Lucius Fairchild. 28 Apr. 1880.

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Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

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Twain, Mark. Letter to Orion Clemens. 23 Mar. 1878.

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Twain, Mark. Letter to Orion Clemens, 23 Mar. 1878. Collected Nonfiction of Mark Twain. Vol. 1, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016.

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A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

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Twain, Mark. Letter to Annie Moffett Webster. 1 Sept. 1876.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is Left out of it.

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Twain, Mark. Letter to Mr. Rogers. May 1897.

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Cheer up—the worst is yet to come.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

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Anywhere is better than Paris. Paris the cold, Paris the drizzly, Paris the rainy, Paris the Damnable. More than a hundred years ago, somebody asked Quin, "Did you ever see such a winter in all your life before?" "Yes," said he, "last summer." I judge he spent his summer in Paris.

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Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is Left out of it.

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.

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