As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.
~ Mark Twain

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The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.
~ Mark Twain

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We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation.
~ Mark Twain

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
~ Mark Twain

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If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
~ Mark Twain

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To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
~ Mark Twain

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None but the dead have free speech.
~ Mark Twain

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It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.
~ Mark Twain

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