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Mark Twain

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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.


— Mark Twain


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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.


— Mark Twain


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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.


— Mark Twain


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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.


— Mark Twain


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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.


— Mark Twain


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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.


— Mark Twain


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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.


— Mark Twain


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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.


— Mark Twain


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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.


— Mark Twain


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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.


— Mark Twain


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About Mark Twain

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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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