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Quotes by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemons)
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How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
There are three things which I consider excellent advice. First, don't smoke to access. Second, don't drink to excess. Third, don't marry to excess.
You should never do anything wicked and lay it on your brother, when it is just as convenient to lay it on some other boy.
To have nothing the matter with you and no habits is pretty tame, pretty colorless. It is just the way a saint feels, I reckon; it is at least the way he looks. I never could stand a saint.
So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: 'Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.' Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.
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