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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

~Mark Twain

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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

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I can live for two months on a good compliment.

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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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.'

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: November 30th, 1835

Died: April 21st, 1910

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