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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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Autobiographer
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Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
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Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.
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I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.
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They did not know it was impossible so they did it
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Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.
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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.
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An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.
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My own luck has been curious all my literary life I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
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I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.
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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
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Whiskey is for drinking water is for fighting over.
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We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.
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Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
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I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.
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