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Mark Twain

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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.


— Mark Twain


#collector #difference #only #skin #takes

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.


— Mark Twain


#blushes #man #needs #only

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.


— Mark Twain


#blossoms #faculty #lord #lost #out

Better a broken promise than none at all.


— Mark Twain


#broken #none #promise #than

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.


— Mark Twain


#egg #hen #laid #merely #noise

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.


— Mark Twain


#classic #people #praise #read #which

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.


— Mark Twain


#sadder #sight #than #young

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.


— Mark Twain


#fluid #ink #merely #prejudice #very

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.


— Mark Twain


#ever #may #pause #right #right word

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.


— Mark Twain


#forbidden #more #popular #things






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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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