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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
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The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.
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No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.
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It's not as bad as it sounds.
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Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket - which is but a matter of saying, Scatter your money and your attention but the wise man saith, Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
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Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.
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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.
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It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden
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Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.
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Too much is just enough.
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The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.
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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
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