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It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.
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To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
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As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.
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Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.
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Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.
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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.
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He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.
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They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.
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The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
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I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.
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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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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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The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
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You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.
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In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.
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