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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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Samuel Clemens
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Ours is the land of the free-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)
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Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.
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We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.
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The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.
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Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.
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A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.
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Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
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It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.
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At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
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I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases
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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.
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Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene
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In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
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There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!
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He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
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Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.
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There is only one good sex. The female one.
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