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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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You can't reason with your heart it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
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Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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