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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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A good lawyer knows the law a clever one takes the judge to lunch.
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The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.
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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
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Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.
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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.
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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
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Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.
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Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
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If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.
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All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.
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It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.
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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
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Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.
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The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.
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Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene
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It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.
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Half of the results of a good intentions are evil half the results of an evil intention are good.
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All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.
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The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.
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In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.
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