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Mark Twain

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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.


— Mark Twain


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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.


— Mark Twain


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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.


— Mark Twain


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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.


— Mark Twain


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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.


— Mark Twain


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I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.


— Mark Twain


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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.


— Mark Twain


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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.


— Mark Twain


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We are all alike, on the inside.


— Mark Twain


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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.


— 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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