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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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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.
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The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
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No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.
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It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.
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If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.
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Children have but little charity for one another's defects
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