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Mark Twain

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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.


— Mark Twain


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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.


— Mark Twain


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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.


— Mark Twain


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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.


— Mark Twain


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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.


— Mark Twain


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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.


— Mark Twain


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I never let schooling interfere with my education.


— Mark Twain


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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.


— Mark Twain


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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.


— Mark Twain


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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.


— 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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