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Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.
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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.
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A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.
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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
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To believe yourself brave is to be brave it is the one only essential thing.
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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.
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Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.
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Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!
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I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.
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