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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
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Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.
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A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
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Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.
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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
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God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
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He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.
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