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Mark Twain

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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.


— Mark Twain


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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.


— Mark Twain


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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.


— Mark Twain


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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.


— Mark Twain


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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.


— Mark Twain


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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.


— Mark Twain


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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.


— Mark Twain


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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.


— Mark Twain


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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.


— Mark Twain


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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.


— 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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