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Mark Twain

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.


— Mark Twain


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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.


— Mark Twain


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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.


— Mark Twain


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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.


— Mark Twain


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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.


— Mark Twain


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The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.


— Mark Twain


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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.


— Mark Twain


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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.


— Mark Twain


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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.


— Mark Twain


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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.


— Mark Twain


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About Mark Twain

Mark Twain Quotes




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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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