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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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Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.
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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.
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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.
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Concentration of power in a political machine is bad and an Established Church is only a political machine it was invented for that it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.
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Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.
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Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.
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You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do
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Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.
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I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.
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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
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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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You cannot have all chiefs you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.
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These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
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