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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.
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There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.
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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.
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But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness death was man’s best friend when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.
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They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.
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... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.
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There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
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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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Concentration of power in a political machine is bad and an Established Church is only a political machine it was invented for that it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.
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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be
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Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!
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