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Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.
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I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.
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Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.
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All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.
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Half of the results of a good intentions are evil half the results of an evil intention are good.
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Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.
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No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.
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The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.
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You want to be very careful about lying otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.
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When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.
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Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
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The heart is the real fountain of youth.
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A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
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God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. (In God we Trust) is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.
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Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.
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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
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