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....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
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Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
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No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
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