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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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It's so damned humiliating.
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We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.
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France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
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Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.
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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.
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She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot
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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.
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The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.
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As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.
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Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.
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The funniest things are the forbidden.
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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.
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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.
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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.
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Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
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