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Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
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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 never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education
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When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.
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Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!
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I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me he can't be any worse.
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The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
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There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.
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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.
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The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Good wine needs no bush a jug is the thing.
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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
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We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.
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I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.
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The only certainties in life are death and taxes.
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You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.
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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.
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