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You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

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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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.
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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.
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But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!
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I admire him, I frankly confess it and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.
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A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.
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Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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