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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.
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Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.
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People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.
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Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?
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I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
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Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!
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Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.
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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!
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