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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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HARDSHIP

 

It is poison -- rank poison to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes -- and we may not escape them -- it is not possible -- but we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.
- Letter to Will Bowen, 25 August 1866

 

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