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Mark Twain

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.


— Mark Twain


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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.


— Mark Twain


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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.


— Mark Twain


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To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.


— Mark Twain


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It is easier to stay out than get out.


— Mark Twain


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The Public is merely a multiplied "me."


— Mark Twain


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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.


— Mark Twain


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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.


— Mark Twain


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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.


— Mark Twain


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The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.


— 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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