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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.
Mark Twain
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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
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
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You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.
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You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.
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The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.
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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
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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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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.
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I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.
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Always tell the truth then you don't have to remember anything
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You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.
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The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.
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