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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.

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

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I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English

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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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