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School gets in the way of my learning.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
Aphorist
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Autobiographer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.
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There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.
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A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
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For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do he made trouble enough before.
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He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.
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