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Mark Twain

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.


— Mark Twain


#acid #anything #harm #more #poured

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.


— Mark Twain


#food

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.


— Mark Twain


#done #easiest #easiest thing #giving #giving up

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.


— Mark Twain


#lie

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.


— Mark Twain


#deserve #honors #than #them

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.


— Mark Twain


#education #mainly #unlearned

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.


— Mark Twain


#dogs #heaven #inspirational #man #religion

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.


— Mark Twain


#savages #humor

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.


— Mark Twain


#change

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.


— Mark Twain


#writing #water






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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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