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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
(Attributed)

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Twain, Mark - (Attributed) | WIST Quotations

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Quoted in Gay Zenola MacLaren, Morally We Roll Along (1938). A recollection of something Twain said to the author when she was…

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Cynni's Blog Mar 29, 2025

“You don’t have anything else to do anyway…”

Or: how to drive me bonkers with one sentence... Especially if it's said after something went wrong that adds more work for me to do... Ugh... I hate that sentence. Especially since I've been hearing it loads since I've lost the ability to work. Believe me, I'd rather have a healthy body and a nice job with a decent income... That's so much better than a broken body, little energy, living on a disability income, and being belittled because of it all... […]

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“You don’t have anything else to do anyway…”

Or: how to drive me bonkers with one sentence… Especially if it’s said after something went wrong that adds more work for me to do… Ugh… I hate that sentence. Especially sin…

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