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Mark Twain

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a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.


— Mark Twain


#lesson #knowledge

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.


— Mark Twain


#inspiration #life #wisdom #inspirational

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.


— Mark Twain


#charm #desirable #forbidden #makes #unspeakably

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.


— Mark Twain


#friendship #friendship

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.


— Mark Twain


#cat

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.


— Mark Twain


#wordplay #animals

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.


— Mark Twain


#louder #nearly #often #speaks #than

Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.


— Mark Twain


#weather #humor

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.


— Mark Twain


#reality #imagination

All right, then, I'll go to hell.


— Mark Twain


#go to hell #hell #i #right #then






About 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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