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Mark Twain

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I can live for two months on a good compliment.


— Mark Twain


#compliment #i #i can #live #months

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.


— Mark Twain


#everything #heaven #human #itself #joy

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.


— Mark Twain


#asleep #awake #been #care #example

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.


— Mark Twain


#flatter #friends #getting #getting old #how

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.


— Mark Twain


#fine #heroic #keep #people #telling

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.


— Mark Twain


#divide #full #get #grief #itself

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.


— Mark Twain


#expect #get #weather

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.


— Mark Twain


#heart #himself #his #man #much

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.


— Mark Twain


#good #impressive #lightning #thunder #work

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.


— Mark Twain


#adversity #another #easily #endure #i






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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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