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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.
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Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
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We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.
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The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.
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There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.
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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
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No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.
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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'
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A better idea than my own is to listen.
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Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
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There isn't any way to libel the human race.
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A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.
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In literature imitations do not imitate.
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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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I said nothing of the sort.
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If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.
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There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.
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If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.
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Be good and you will be lonely.
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