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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
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Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.
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Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
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Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.
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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
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Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to institutions are extraneous. . . .
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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
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It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.
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If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.
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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.
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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
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Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
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I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly but their wives had grown old. These were good women it is very wearing to be good.
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The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.
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