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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?
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If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.
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Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.
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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.
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We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.
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It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.
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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.
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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
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The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.
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A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
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I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly but their wives had grown old. These were good women it is very wearing to be good.
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But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.
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Make your vacation your vocation.
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Troubles are only mental it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.
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A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.
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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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