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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.
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All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.
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One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.
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I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
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