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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
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It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
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Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy aristocracy of the American type.
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To forget pain is to be painless to forget care is to be rid of it to go abroad is to accomplish both.
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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
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India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
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The ancients stole all our ideas from us.
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Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.
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I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.
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Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene
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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
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Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out
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To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.
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What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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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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If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
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A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.
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There is no security in life, only opportunity.
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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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