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An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
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Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879
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I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.
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If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.
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All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.
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Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.
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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
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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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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
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Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so it is the sickening grammar that they use.
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It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.
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A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.
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A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.
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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.
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A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.
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