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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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We like to read about rich people in the newspapers the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.
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Humor is like a frog if you dissect it, it dies.
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It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.
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Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.
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Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.
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Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.
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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
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I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.
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My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.
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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.
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When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.
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The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.
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The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power we have no other.
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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.
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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to institutions are extraneous. . . .
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