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Mark Twain

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If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.


— Mark Twain


#government #democracy

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.


— Mark Twain


#new-orleans #food

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.


— Mark Twain


#god #made #man #tired #week

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.


— Mark Twain


#humor #irony #language #humor

He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'.


— Mark Twain


#irony #wit #experience

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.


— Mark Twain


#experience

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.


— Mark Twain


#politics #humor

I can last two months on a good compliment.


— Mark Twain


#self-realization #humor

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.


— Mark Twain


#education

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.


— Mark Twain


#travel #prejudice






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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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