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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.
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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
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I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.
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Italy is the home of art and swindling home of religion and moral rottenness
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Always obey your parents - when they are present.
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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
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Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.
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Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.
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Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.
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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
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We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries it is only when we set out to discover the secret of God that our difficulties disappear.
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