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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.
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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.
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What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?
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Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
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Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.
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You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.
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In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.
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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.
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It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.
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Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.
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