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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.
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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
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I am dead to adverbs they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.
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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.
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My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess second, don't drink - to excess third, don't marry - to excess.
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I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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I can live for two months on a good compliment.
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