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If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.
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In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.
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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
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Between us, we cover all knowledge he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
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Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.
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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.
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In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
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To be satisfied with what one has that is wealth.
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My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it, as I am, every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination, maybe of indolence, shifts the cargo.
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I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.
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Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
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Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.
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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
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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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So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
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