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Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.
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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But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.
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[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.
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The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.
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A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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