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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.
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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training the odds are too heavy.
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My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.
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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.
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Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.
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You may say organize, organize, organize but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.
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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
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The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
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I never write metropolis for seven cents when I can write city and get paid the same.
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Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.
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That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.
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There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!
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Don't dream your life, but live your dream
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A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little less frown, A little less kicking, A man while he's down, A little more We, A little less I, A little more laugh, A little less cry, A little more flowers, On the pathway of life, And fewer on graves, At the end of the stri
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The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.
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A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.
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It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.
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It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.
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