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Nature knows no indecencies man invents them.
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
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An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.
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People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.
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Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
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The Bible is a wonderful book you can prove anything you want with it.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
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There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.
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The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.
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It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.
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The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.
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The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.
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Damn these human beings if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.
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