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Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
Aphorist
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Autobiographer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
Teacher
Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
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The lightning there is peculiar it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.
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I can live for two months on a good compliment.
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I said nothing of the sort.
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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.
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A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.
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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.
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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.
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The humorous story is told gravely the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.
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On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.
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[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.
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What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.
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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
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