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“I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.”
— "Answers to Correspondents", The Californian, 17 June 1865. Anthologized in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867)
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.”
— Mark Twain's Notebook, 1887
“To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.”
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch (30 May 1902); also in Mark Twain : A Life, p. 611
“Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.”
— Letter to Gertrude Natkin, 2 March 1906
“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.”
— Ch. 43
“Biographies are but clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man himself cannot be written.”
— Mark Twain's Autobiography (1924), Vol. I, p. 2

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“I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.”
— "Answers to Correspondents", The Californian, 17 June 1865. Anthologized in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867)
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.”
— Mark Twain's Notebook, 1887
“To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.”
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch (30 May 1902); also in Mark Twain : A Life, p. 611
“Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.”
— Letter to Gertrude Natkin, 2 March 1906
“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.”
— Ch. 43
“Biographies are but clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man himself cannot be written.”
— Mark Twain's Autobiography (1924), Vol. I, p. 2

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.