I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you see, I have friends in both places.

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About Mark Twain

Portrait of Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include...

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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"—a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

—Mitch Albom in The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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Love is all fire; and so heaven and hell are the same place.

—Thomas Merton

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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

—Margaret Thatcher

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There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

—Robert Quillen

In the Koran, Allah asks, "The heaven and the earth and all in between, thinkest thou I made them in jest?" It's a good question. What do we think of the created universe, spanning an unthinkable void with an unthinkable profusion of forms?… If the giant water bug was not made in jest, was it then made in earnest?

—Annie Dillard

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