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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
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Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.
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I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.
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All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.
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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.
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Humor is the good natured side of a truth.
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Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.
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There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.
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But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.
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Such is professional jealousy a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.
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My own luck has been curious all my literary life I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
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Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.
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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?
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In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination
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There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.
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We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.
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