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Mark Twain

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It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.


— Mark Twain


#judgment

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.


— Mark Twain


#loyalty

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.


— Mark Twain


#recovery #recovery

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.


— Mark Twain


#morality #business

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.


— Mark Twain


#huck-finn #loveliness #raft #self-worth #stars

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.


— Mark Twain


#science

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.


— Mark Twain


#mark-twain #politics #twain #worship

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.


— Mark Twain


#age

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.


— Mark Twain


#water #wine #wine

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.


— Mark Twain


#mark-twain #sorrow #humor






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But I have thought some more since then and I have read carefully the treaty of Paris [which ended the Spanish-American War] and I have seen that we do not intend to free but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. There were three versions found in his manuscripts made between 1897 and 1905: the Hannibal Eseldorf and Print Shop versions. He did state that "the goodness the justice and the mercy of God are manifested in His works" but also that "the universe is governed by strict and immutable laws" which determine "small matters" such as who dies in a pestilence.

Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full though he had no responsibility to do this under the law. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker.

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