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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
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In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!
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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
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It is a shameful thing to insult a child.
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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.
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More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.
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Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
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Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.
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An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
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Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.
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A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.
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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.
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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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Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.
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Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.
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When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?
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Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.
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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.
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