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Mark Twain

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


— Mark Twain


#pessimism #optimism

It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.


— Mark Twain


#preparedness #humor

Write what you know.


— Mark Twain


#adventure

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.


— Mark Twain


#humor

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.


— Mark Twain


#man #recovery #right #wisdom #wrong

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.


— Mark Twain


#music

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.


— Mark Twain


#people #prejudice #prejudice

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.


— Mark Twain


#jane-austen #library

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?


— Mark Twain


#home #pets

All generalizations are false, including this one.


— Mark Twain


#false #generalizations #including






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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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