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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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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.
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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
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When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.
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The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
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In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!
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A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.
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I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.
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Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.
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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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