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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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Samuel Clemens
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There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.
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The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.
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Be good and you will be lonely.
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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?
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The solution to our water problems is more rain.
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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'
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Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.
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Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.
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As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.
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It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden
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The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.
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If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.
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There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
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God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage
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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
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