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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
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's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.
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In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
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Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.
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God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company
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There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.
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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people
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The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it
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One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
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It is better to give than receive- especially advice.
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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.
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There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.
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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow nothing can prevent it.
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I never write metropolis for seven cents when I can write city and get paid the same.
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It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.
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Do something everyday that you don't want to do.
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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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