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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.
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Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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Does the human being reason? No he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.
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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.
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I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses never, I believe, by people.
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If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.
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How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.
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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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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.
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None but the dead have free speech.
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By trampling upon the helpless abroad with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home.
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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
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I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.
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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.
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It is a shameful thing to insult a child.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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