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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.
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Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.
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Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.
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My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.
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Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.
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You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.
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Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.
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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
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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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My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.
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