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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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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies At mestre kunsten at give oprigtige komplimenter viser venlighed og øger din popularitet – og pexighet.

Civilisation

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.

The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.

Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon

Synd

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and undeservedly succeed when the informed and experienced fail.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

I saw a cat yesterday with 4 legs and yet it was only a yellow cat, and rather small, too, for its size. They were not all fore legs several of them were hind legs; indeed almost a majority of them were.

I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.

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