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Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.
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The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
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I persuaded him to throw the dirk away and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.
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Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?
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The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.
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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
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