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Mark Twain

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.


— Mark Twain


#bother #i #i do #me #parts

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.


— Mark Twain


#god #idiot #made #practice #school

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.


— Mark Twain


#know #particularly #people #stories #tell

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.


— Mark Twain


#college #college education #education #nothing

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.


— Mark Twain


#delete #editor #every #every time #inclined

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.


— Mark Twain


#been #indicate #merely #should #smiles

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.


— Mark Twain


#about #holler #hollering #knowing #loudest

I've never let my school interfere with my education.


— Mark Twain


#i #interfere #never #school

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.


— Mark Twain


#death #fear #most #thing #you

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.


— Mark Twain


#class #congress #criminal #distinctly #except






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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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