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How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.  -  Mark Twain

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.  -  Mark Twain

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There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.  -  Mark Twain

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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.  -  Mark Twain

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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. [Edit Item] [Delete Item] Mark Twain

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.  -  Mark Twain

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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.  -  Mark Twain

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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.  -  Mark Twain

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on … Continue reading →

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.  -  Mark Twain

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