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Mark Twain

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One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.


— Mark Twain


#clever #exclamation-point #writing #writing-advice

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man


— Mark Twain


#humor

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.


— Mark Twain


#friendship #humor #friendship

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.


— Mark Twain


#nature

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.


— Mark Twain


#because #call #dull #dumb #his

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.


— Mark Twain


#conversation #each #effort #let us #make

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.


— Mark Twain


#inspirational

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;


— Mark Twain


#humor #humor

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do... Explore. Dream. Discover.


— Mark Twain


#dreams

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.


— Mark Twain


#life #death






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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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