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Mark Twain

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.


— Mark Twain


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The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.


— Mark Twain


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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.


— Mark Twain


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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.


— Mark Twain


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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.


— Mark Twain


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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.


— Mark Twain


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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.


— Mark Twain


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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.


— 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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