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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.
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Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.
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What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.
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All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
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The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to institutions are extraneous. . . .
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The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
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You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.
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My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.
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While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
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I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.
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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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Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.
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The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.
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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.
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By trampling upon the helpless abroad with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home.
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Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
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Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.
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