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Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.
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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There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.
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That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.
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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.
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These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.
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There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to but a hog is different.
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When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface
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There is no other life life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.
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I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.
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it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.
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We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.
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What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.
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It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.
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Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.
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Humor is man's greatest blessing.
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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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