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Mark Twain

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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.


— Mark Twain


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By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.


— Mark Twain


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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.


— Mark Twain


#good #impressive #lightning #thunder #work

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.


— Mark Twain


#away #drag #ears #heels #manage

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.


— Mark Twain


#i #make #me #mind #much

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.


— Mark Twain


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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.


— Mark Twain


#heart #himself #his #man #much

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.


— Mark Twain


#fine #heroic #keep #people #telling

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.


— Mark Twain


#expect #get #weather

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.


— Mark Twain


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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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