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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.
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The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.
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When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.
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If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.
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English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.
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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'
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If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
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Never waste a lie you never know when you may need it.
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If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.
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It is wiser to find out than to suppose.
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Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.
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Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.
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Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.
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The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
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