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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?
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More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.
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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
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He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.
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It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.
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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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It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.
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There are no wild animals until man makes them so.
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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.
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I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.
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I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
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Italy is the home of art and swindling home of religion and moral rottenness
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
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The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.
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Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.
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