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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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More quotes by Mark Twain
Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.
Mark Twain
When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.
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Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.
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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
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Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?
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Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.
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If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.
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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
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Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.
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Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
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Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
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I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
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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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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.
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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.
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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.
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It is better to give than receive- especially advice.
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