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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.
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I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be even I cannot tell, myself.
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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
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Nature knows no indecencies man invents them.
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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.
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Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise
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Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.
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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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