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Mark Twain

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.


— Mark Twain


#life #life

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.


— Mark Twain


#forgiveness

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened


— Mark Twain


#positive #worries #inspirational

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.


— Mark Twain


#humor #death

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.


— Mark Twain


#ignorance

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.


— Mark Twain


#food #education

It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.


— Mark Twain


#politics #freedom

Be good and you will be lonesome.


— Mark Twain


#loneliness #journey

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.


— Mark Twain


#humor #on-writing #wit #writing #humor

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.


— Mark Twain


#humor #wit #faith






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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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