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Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
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I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.
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We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can show off and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.
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The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the tellingthe comic and the witty story upon the matter.
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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.
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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
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There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.
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Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.
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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
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It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.
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What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes my dear, and my love come from the heart but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?
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It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.
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Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.
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Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.
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Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.
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To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.
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The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.
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