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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie I can, but I won't.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.
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In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.
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The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the tellingthe comic and the witty story upon the matter.
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When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.
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If I had more time, I would have written less.
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In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing the local papers said nothing against it the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.
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You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Never miss an opportunity to shut up.
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Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.
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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
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I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.
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The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.
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I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.
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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
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