Mark Twain

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"It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term."	Economics, School
"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."	Sex
"I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes."	God, Taxes
"O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it."	Anti-Religion, War
"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."	Writing
"The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say."	Writing
"As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out."	Writing
"There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice."	Miscellaneous
"There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice."	Quotations
"In all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."	Miscellaneous
"In all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."	Quotations
"We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it."	Economics, Change
"I never let schooling interfere with my education."	Education
"We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened."	Religion
"Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go to any length for it-risk fortune, character, reputation, life itself."	Sex
"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."	Work
"The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal."	Success, Lies
"It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."	America
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."	Anti-God, Books
"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."	Sleep
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