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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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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.


— Mark Twain


#away #drag #ears #heels #manage

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


— Mark Twain


#around #first #go #here #living

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.


— Mark Twain


#cannot #happen #nothing #today

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.


— Mark Twain


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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.


— Mark Twain


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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.


— Mark Twain


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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.


— Mark Twain


#do the right thing #gratify #people #rest #right

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.


— Mark Twain


#cannot #comfortable #his #man #own

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.


— 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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