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Mark Twain

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I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.


— Mark Twain


#inspirational

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.


— Mark Twain


#humor

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.


— Mark Twain


#humor

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.


— Mark Twain


#humor #humor

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.


— Mark Twain


#doubt #fool #mouth #open #remain

I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.


— Mark Twain


#humor #death

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.


— Mark Twain


#science #science

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today!


— Mark Twain


#inspirational

Eschew surplusage.


— Mark Twain


#rules-for-writing #humor

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.


— Mark Twain


#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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