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I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
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
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Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!
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To forget pain is to be painless to forget care is to be rid of it to go abroad is to accomplish both.
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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.
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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.
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I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.
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Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
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You cannot have all chiefs you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.
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It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.
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I said nothing of the sort.
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You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you
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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
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Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.
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I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education
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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.
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