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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Advice to Youth
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An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson
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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Gorky Incident
Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), quoted in Mark Twain and I, Opie Read, 1940
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)

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