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Mark Twain

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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.


— Mark Twain


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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.


— Mark Twain


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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.


— Mark Twain


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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.


— Mark Twain


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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.


— Mark Twain


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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.


— Mark Twain


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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.


— Mark Twain


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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.


— Mark Twain


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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.


— Mark Twain


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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.


— 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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