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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.
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If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.
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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.
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The solution to our water problems is more rain.
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Be good and you will be lonely.
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A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.
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I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.
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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
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There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.
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People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.
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The only certainties in life are death and taxes.
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Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!
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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.
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Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.
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