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Mark Twain

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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.


— Mark Twain


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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.


— Mark Twain


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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.


— Mark Twain


#chain #freed #human #human soul #loyalty

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.


— Mark Twain


#limitless #multiplication #necessities #unnecessary

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.


— Mark Twain


#crank #idea #new #new idea #person

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.


— Mark Twain


#make #sense #stranger #than #truth

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.


— Mark Twain


#buy #land #making

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.


— Mark Twain


#dress #keep #soul #tidy #will






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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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