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Mark Twain

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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.


— Mark Twain


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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.


— Mark Twain


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To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.


— Mark Twain


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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.


— Mark Twain


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I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.


— Mark Twain


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Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.


— Mark Twain


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Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.


— Mark Twain


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It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.


— Mark Twain


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Man - a figment of God's imagination.


— Mark Twain


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I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.


— 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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