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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.
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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
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I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks they came in together, they must go out together.
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Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.
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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
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An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words it feels like music.
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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
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The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
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Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!
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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
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In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.
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