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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.
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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If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, As unhappy as God.
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I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
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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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The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
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Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.
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