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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Autobiographer
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
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If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
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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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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow nothing can prevent it.
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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.
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So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
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Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
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I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is hogwash
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First catch your Boer, then kick him.
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There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.
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Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache and what is more, I never intend to have it.
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The Bible is a wonderful book you can prove anything you want with it.
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.
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A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.
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Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.
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