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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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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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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.
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The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
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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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I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.
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You can't throw too much style into a miracle.
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Training- training is everything training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature it is folly there is no such thing as nature what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own they are transmitted to us, trained into us.
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There are no wild animals until man makes them so.
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There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.
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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
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Temperate temperance is best intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.
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It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.
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God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
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I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.
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