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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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It's not as bad as it sounds.
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The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to institutions are extraneous. . . .
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The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.
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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.
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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three I attended their funerals.
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Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.
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I've never let my school interfere with my education.
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When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.
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Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
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It's so damned humiliating.
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Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.
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I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.
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When congress is in session no American is safe.
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The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
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Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water.
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One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
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Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake he wanted it because it was forbidden.
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Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
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