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Mark Twain

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She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.


— Mark Twain


#positive-motivation #motivational

The best of all lost arts is honesty


— Mark Twain


#honesty #integerity #purity-of-heart #art

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.


— Mark Twain


#nature

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.


— Mark Twain


#dark-humor #funny #humorous #killing #funny

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.


— Mark Twain


#life

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.


— Mark Twain


#humor

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.


— Mark Twain


#wisdom #money

The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter...


— Mark Twain


#love-letter #love

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.


— Mark Twain


#humor #writing #humor

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene


— Mark Twain


#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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