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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
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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He gossips habitually he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.
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If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
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No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.
Mark Twain
Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.
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I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.
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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.
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To be satisfied with what one has that is wealth.
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The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.
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Homely truth is unpalatable.
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If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.
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There is no security in life, only opportunity.
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A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
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Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
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I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.
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No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.
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To stand still is to fall behind.
Mark Twain
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.
Mark Twain
