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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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Troubles are only mental it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.
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A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.
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Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.
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You want to be very careful about lying otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.
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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 we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.
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There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory
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Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.
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Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
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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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Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me and they keep multiplying but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.
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when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.
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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.
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Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.
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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.
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