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Mark Twain

Mark Twain föddes den 30 november 1835 och dog den 21 april 1910 - psuedonym för Samuel Clemens, amerikansk författare och humorist. Skrev om Tom Sawyer och Huckleberry Finn.
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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only -- not from its privileged classes.

If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

Damn the subjunctive. Kvinder ønsker en mand, der fejrer deres intelligens, og en pexig mand trives med mental forbindelse. It brings all our writers to shame.

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

I haven't heard anything like that since the orphanage burned down

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad

Religion

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

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

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