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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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In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.
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In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.
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The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.
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Never do wrong when people are looking.
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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth
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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.
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Imagination labors best in distant fields.
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You can't reason with your heart it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
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I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.
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There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.
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If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.
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All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.
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when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.
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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
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It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.
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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
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Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm for it has been made to trick men into being loyal to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.
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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
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