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Mark Twain

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

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Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

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Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

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I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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