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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Humorist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
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Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).
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We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy that watches over their dignity that focuses their vision true--humor.
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First catch your Boer, then kick him.
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Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.
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Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.
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Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.
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Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?
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...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'
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Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
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A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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Do something everyday that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
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There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.
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