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Mark Twain
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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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The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.
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When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.
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No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.
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... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.
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I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.
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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
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None but the dead have free speech.
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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
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The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.
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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
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If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
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Sometimes people do get hurt
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When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.
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One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
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You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.
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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.
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Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.
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I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.
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We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.
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