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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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More quotes by Mark Twain
He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.
Mark Twain
Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me and they keep multiplying but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.
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Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.
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If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.
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Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.
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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.
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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.
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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.
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It is wiser to find out than to suppose.
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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.
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I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do.
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Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.
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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.
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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.
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But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!
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There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.
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Training- training is everything training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature it is folly there is no such thing as nature what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own they are transmitted to us, trained into us.
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I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.
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The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.
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