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We are all alike, on the inside.
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 moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.
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The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.
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Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.
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The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
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But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.
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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.
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If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out and I don't know but more so.
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In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.
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There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
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We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.
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The funniest things are the forbidden.
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A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.
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The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
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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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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
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The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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