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An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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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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Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.
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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones it can lift men to angelship.
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Such is professional jealousy a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.
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America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.
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Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.
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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.
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A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.
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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.
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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.
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We like to read about rich people in the newspapers the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.
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I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the # telephone .
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Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.
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There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.
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I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.
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Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.
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It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.
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In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.
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Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.
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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.
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