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Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.
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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The proverb says, Born lucky, always lucky, and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.
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Honor is a harder master than the law.
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Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
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I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me he can't be any worse.
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The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.
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There isn't any way to libel the human race.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.
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What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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