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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.
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If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
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Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?
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The average man don't like trouble and danger.
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I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.
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It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.
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To believe yourself brave is to be brave it is the one only essential thing.
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The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.
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Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.
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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people
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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
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We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes
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No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.
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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
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God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.
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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.
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No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.
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There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.
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You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do
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Humor is man's greatest blessing.
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