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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.
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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.
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To stand still is to fall behind.
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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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A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane not in all things, but in religious matters.
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Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
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I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.
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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.
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I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.
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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?
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There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.
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When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.
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That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.
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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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It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.
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