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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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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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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
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Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.
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There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.
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from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.
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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
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There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.
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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.
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A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.
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I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.
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Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.
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The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.
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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.
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The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.
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That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.
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We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.
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The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
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