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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.
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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
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I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.
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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
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Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.
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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?
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The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
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The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.
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