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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.
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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people
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The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to institutions are extraneous. . . .
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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