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Mark Twain was an American author, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.
* He was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri.
* He is best known for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
* Twain's work has been praised for its humor, satire, and realism.
* He was a vocal critic of racism and social injustice.
* Twain died on April 21, 1910, in Redding, Connecticut.
* He is considered one of the greatest American writers of all time.
* His work continues to be read and enjoyed by people all over the world.

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

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

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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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

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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

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I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

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 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

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