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In literature imitations do not imitate.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.
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Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.
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...heaven for climate, and hell for society.
Mark Twain
A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.
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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three I attended their funerals.
Mark Twain
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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Humor is man's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain
If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.
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Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.
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Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
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What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes my dear, and my love come from the heart but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?
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Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first! Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
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I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.
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You thunder and lightning too much the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
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The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.
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If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
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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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Don't wait the time is never just right.
Mark Twain
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.
Mark Twain
