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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.
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Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.
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It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.
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He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
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The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one.
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As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.
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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.
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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
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The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.
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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
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I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.
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The convention missionaries call modesty has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.
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Never miss an opportunity to shut up.
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One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.
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I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks they came in together, they must go out together.
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I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.
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Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.
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It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.
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