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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.
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Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.
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Does the human being reason? No he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.
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The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.
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In love, you pay as you leave.
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The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power we have no other.
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I've never let my school interfere with my education.
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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
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Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.
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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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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.
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If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.
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