I Never Could Keep A Secret

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
—    Mark Twain
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On This Day In:
2020	Facing The Truth
2019	How Much Is Your Education Worth?
	Is America Ready: Mayor Pete – 2020!!
2018	Disruptive Definition
2017	A History Of Small Insights
2016	Be Uncommon
2015	Ooops!
2014	What Price Freedom?
2013	Remembering Val
2012	Good-bye, Val
	Survival Value
2011	Traitors In Our Midst
	Life Ain’t Easy

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Avoiding Corners

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.  Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
—    Mark Twain
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On This Day In:
2020	First Buds
	To Fly
2019	What If Nobody Believes Them Either
2018	It’s About Heart Not Skill
2017	Winning So Much I’m Already Tired Of It (Not)
2016	Punishing Red Binge
2015	Bits In The Soup
2014	More Beef, Less Bull
2013	Where Are Your Mountains
2012	Spherical Knowledge Of Hamsters
2011	Taking Stock Over Time

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And Keep Doing So

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.
—    Mark Twain
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On This Day In:
2020	Well Over!
	The Group
2019	Carrying Humanity
2018	Not Necessarily In This Order
	Stock Market Sets More Records Under #DumbDonald
2017	An Accumulation Of Acts
2016	Here’s Lookin’ At You Kid
2015	How To Be Omnipotent
2014	The Promise Of Future Love
2013	Christian, n.
2012	Praise
	Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
2011	A Few More Lyrics From The Past
	5 For The Price Of 1

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I Am Looking Forward To Reading The House’s Formal Impeachment Charges

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
—    Mark Twain
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On This Day In:
2018	Three Things
2017	Love Yourself
	Deliver The Revolution
2016	Once Eccentric
2015	Trusted Desperation
2014	Orange October (V) – Giants Win Game 3
	Who Am I To Teach?
2013	Deliver Us Something Larger
2012	Bore, n.
2011	Attaining High Office

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Start By Doubting

When in doubt tell the truth.  It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.
—  Mark Twain
[Confound me, Mr. President.  Please…
I’m NOT really #LyingDonald’s “enemy“.   I respect the office too much and dismiss him too readily to consider #IncompetentTrump to be an “enemy” or even my enemy.  I simply oppose everything he personally represents:  greed, disregard for the rule of law, anti-intellectualism, illiteracy, authoritarianism, racism, fascism, and I resist the direction he proposes to take this country which I love…  —  KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2018	You Cannot Pretend
2017	A Long Shadow
2016	Learning, Experience, Chances or Money
2015	The Critical State
2014	Dawn, n.
2013	Ouch!
2012	Just Lookin’ Around
	Still Growing
2011	But Do You Want To?

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Hopefully, You’re Learning To Forgive

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.  But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
––    Mark Twain (attributed to)
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
––    Oscar Wilde
[Happy Birthday, James!    —    Mum and Dad]
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On This Day In:
2018	Enjoy The Sunsets As Well As The Sunrises
2017	Enjoy
2016	I Got A Feeling
2015	Fiction Leading To History
2014	A Self-Correcting Process
2013	None But He Knows
2012	99% Are Demanding
2011	All In The Family
	Take Your Pick

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Maybe A Slight Advantage

The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
—    Mark Twain
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On This Day In:
2018	As I Recall
2017	Truly Generous
2016	Choose Your Destiny
2015	Fast And Firm
2014	Neither Head Nor Heart
2013	Lonely, Foolish, Love Songs
	Batting 1.000
	Coward, n.
2012	At Least A Little More Difficult
2011	Speaking Of Fear

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Worry (x2)

Worry is a waste of imagination.
—   Walt Disney
Most of my life’s worst experiences never actually happened.
—   Mark Twain
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On This Day In:
2017	Still Working
	Gold In The Morning Sun
2016	Power Inside
2015	Sometimes I Feel Small
2014	It Slipped Away
2013	Corollary
2012	Working Retired
2011	The Web Is Not Authoritative! (Really?)

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Or Loyalty To An Unqualified And Incompetent President

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
—    Mark Twain
[It is so hard to maintain respect for an Office when the occupant is so clearly unfit for it.  And yet, by our system, he was duly elected…  With the “help” of Crosscheck, that is… (sarcasm intended).  Oh, well, at least the crazies can’t say I’m blaming the Russians for Trump – clearly, it was the Republicans seeking to ruin America, after all.  LOL    —    KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2017	A Bad Sale
2016	Be Happy!
2015	Are You Feeling Cold?
2014	Never Asked
2013	In Praise Of Change
2012	John Carter Of Mars
	Circular
2011	How Much And When

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Reliable Vision

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
—   Mark Twain
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On This Day In:
2016	Still Walking
2015	Steps
2014	To Be Greatly Good
2013	Limited Capacity
2012	Two Ear Ticklers
	Justification
2011	To Avail The Nation

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Happy New Year — 2016!

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful.  Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
―  Thomas Jefferson
There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account.  There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.
—  Mark Twain
[Hopefully you did not wake too late this morning or regain consciousness too painfully from last night…  Happy New Year, all!!  —  KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2015	Happy New Year — 2015!
2014	Happy New Year – 2014!
2013	Another New Year’s Thought (In Case It Rains)
	Happy New Year – 2013!
2012	Best Wishes For 2012!
	Where Did You Spend New Year’s Eve?
2011	Happy New Year (2011)!!

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My Suspect Confidence

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
―     Mark Twain
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On This Day In:
2014	Disguised Blessings
2013	Be
2012	The Only Way to Win
2011	Honest Writing

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From The Inside Out

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
—   Mark Twain
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On This Day In:
2014	Alone And Free
2013	Superstition Is Your Way
2012	Escape Hatches
2011	Sing Like No One Is Listening

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Princess

Hi Princess,
Here’s three quotes for you:
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
–  Mark Twain
From a speech given on 23 September 1907
[A good day!  —  KMAB]
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
―  Napoléon Bonaparte
[Be heard!  —  KMAB]
Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.
―  Muhammad Ali
[Make every day count…     —    KMAB]
Happy Birthday!
We love you always,
Mum and Dad
XXX 00 X
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On This Day In:
2014	Optional
2013	Happy Birthday, Rebecca
2012	Be Not Old
	2012 National League Western Division Champions!!!
2011	What Kind Of Work Do You Do?
2010	Another Loser… And Come November

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Well Concealed

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
–    Mark Twain
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On This Day In:
2014	The History Of Warriors
2013	A Cult Of Ignorance
2012	Counting Valor
	Understanding Faith
2011	I Can Hear You Now
2010	Inception

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