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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.
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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-
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I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.
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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
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All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.
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No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.
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No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.
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I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.
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When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.
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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent then he would have eaten the serpent.
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Music is a good thing and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.
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If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.
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I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.
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But old fools is the biggest fools there is.
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Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists
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Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.
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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
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I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.
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