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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

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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It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.
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the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.
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I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.
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A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.
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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
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My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it, as I am, every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination, maybe of indolence, shifts the cargo.
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It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.
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But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.
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Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.
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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.
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If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.
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We like to read about rich people in the newspapers the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.
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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
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It is higher and nobler to be kind.
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My own luck has been curious all my literary life I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.
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