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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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All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.
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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.
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Homely truth is unpalatable.
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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.
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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
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All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.
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I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.
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The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print
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A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.
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