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Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.
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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.
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I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.
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Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.
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Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.
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when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.
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The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.
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Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
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isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people
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When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.
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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?
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