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Mark Twain

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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.


— Mark Twain


#any #die #fear #follows #fully

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.


— Mark Twain


#people

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.


— Mark Twain


#books #libraries #wisdom #wisdom

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.


— Mark Twain


#i #idiot #member #myself #reader

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.


— Mark Twain


#world #nothing

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.


— Mark Twain


#writing #humor

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?


— Mark Twain


#common #eighteen #had #humanity #most

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.


— Mark Twain


#knowledge #humor

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.


— Mark Twain


#age

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.


— Mark Twain


#geography #war #learn






About Mark Twain

Mark Twain Quotes




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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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