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One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

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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This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.
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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
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The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.
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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
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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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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?
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Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.
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The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print
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None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness but we can try.
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We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's God...Our illogical God is all-powerful in name, but impotent in fact the Great Spirit is not all-powerful, but does the very best he can for his injun and does it free of charge
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Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.
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An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words it feels like music.
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Talent without work is useless, thank God
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I am dead to adverbs they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.
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I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.
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Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.
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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie I can, but I won't.
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