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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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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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Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.
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And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.
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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.
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I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.
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India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
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Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.
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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.
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If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.
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The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.
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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
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A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.
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No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.
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There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.
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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.
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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
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It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.
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When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.
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It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.
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