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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.
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But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.
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A good lawyer knows the law a clever one takes the judge to lunch.
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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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Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
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If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, As unhappy as God.
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A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.
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I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.
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Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor
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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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
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