American - Author | November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain
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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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