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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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A habit cannot be tossed out the window it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
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Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure at least the pain is the biggest end of it.
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You want to be very careful about lying otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.
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Be good and you will be lonely.
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We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.
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These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.
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Tough times teach trust.
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Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.
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A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.
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Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.
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The human race is a race of cowards and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
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We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
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The truth hurts, but silence kills.
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We are all alike, on the inside.
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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.
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There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.
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Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.
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Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
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Some things you can't find out but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.
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The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
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