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Mark Twain

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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.


— Mark Twain


#sadder #sight #than #young

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


— Mark Twain


#classic #people #praise #read #which

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


— Mark Twain


#concealing #consists #good #good breeding #how

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.


— Mark Twain


#more #pliable #statistics #stubborn

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.


— Mark Twain


#fight #food #inside #life #like

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.


— Mark Twain


#biography #buttons #cannot #clothes #himself

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.


— Mark Twain


#example #few #few things #good #good example

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."


— Mark Twain


#editors #kings #only #people #presidents

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.


— Mark Twain


#keeps #kind #parrot #person #quite

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.


— Mark Twain


#before #knows #little #man #much






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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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