American - Author | November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'
Mark Twain
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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
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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.
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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
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