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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.
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While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
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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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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
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Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.
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Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.
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There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.
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My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.
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Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.
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The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
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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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I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.
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Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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