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It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
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If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
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But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.
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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
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Concentration of power in a political machine is bad and an Established Church is only a political machine it was invented for that it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.
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Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.
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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
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My own luck has been curious all my literary life I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
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If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
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Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.
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A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
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If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.
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Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.
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There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.
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The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.
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God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.
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I like Joan of Arc best of all my books and it is the best I know it perfectly well.
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The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.
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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
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