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Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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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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A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.
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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
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The human race is a race of cowards and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
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Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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I am dead to adverbs they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.
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How lovely is death and how niggardly it is doled out.
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Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.
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I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.
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Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879
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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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History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.
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There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.
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Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.
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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.
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...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.
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Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.
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The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
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