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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
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I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.
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If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.
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My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.
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The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.
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Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.
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When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.
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Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.
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There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to but a hog is different.
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History doesn't repeat itself it rhymes.
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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.
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Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.
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For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do he made trouble enough before.
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One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.
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A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.
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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.
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