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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
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One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.
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But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
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Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm for it has been made to trick men into being loyal to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.
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There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.
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I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.
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It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
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No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.
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I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.
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On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.
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Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.
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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!
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It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
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Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.
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The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.
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The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
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