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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
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[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.
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The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.
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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
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I couldn't bear to think about it and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.
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