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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.
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the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.
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When in doubt tell the truth.
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There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.
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Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.
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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.
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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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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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Talent without work is useless, thank God
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.
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...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'
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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
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... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.
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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.
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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
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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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