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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.
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Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.
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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.
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If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
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