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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, Where is the best place to go to? He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society.
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Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
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I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!
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He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.
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Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn
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Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.
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I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
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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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The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.
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India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers India is the only millionaire.
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
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We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.
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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
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To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
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