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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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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.
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That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.
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Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
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It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
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