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It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.
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
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The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
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Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.
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You can't reason with your heart it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
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A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.
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There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.
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Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.
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So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
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What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes my dear, and my love come from the heart but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people
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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three I attended their funerals.
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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
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