The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.

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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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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

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I'm what you call a teleological existential atheist. I believe there's an intelligence to the universe with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey.

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A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

—Spike Milligan

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Where humor is concerned there are no standards—no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

—e. e. cummings

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

—Lewis Mumford

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History

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