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Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live with awareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.
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I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
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I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be even I cannot tell, myself.
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Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene
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Between us, we cover all knowledge he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
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Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.
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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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No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.
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None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.
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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
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The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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Concentration of power in a political machine is bad and an Established Church is only a political machine it was invented for that it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.
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If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
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The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.
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It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.
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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
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