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The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.
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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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Samuel Clemens
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When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.
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We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.
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Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.
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Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
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Troubles are only mental it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.
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The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.
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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training the odds are too heavy.
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But old fools is the biggest fools there is.
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You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.
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Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?
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It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.
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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.
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Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.
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A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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