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"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." Mark Twain Quotes  
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Mark Twain, born Samuel Clemens, was an American writer and speaker. These are some of his famous quotes.

	I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.
	Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
	Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
	A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
	He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.
	Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
	Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
	The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey.
	Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
	They spell it "Vinci" and pronounce it "Vinchy." Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
	Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.
	Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
	I was gratified to be able to answer promptly and I did. I said I didn't know.
	I felt like a skinful of dry bones and all of them trying to ache at once.
	Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
	When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
	As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
	Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.
	When in doubt tell the truth.
	The truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
	It is easier to stay out than to get out.
	Pity is for the living, Envy is for the dead.
	Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
	Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.
	Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.
	Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
	Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
	Every generalization is false, including this one.
	I have found solace in profanity unexcelled even by prayer.
	I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly
	It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
	It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
	Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.
	Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
	Only presidents, editors and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we".

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Comments: Twain is awesome. His study is Elmira, NY at Elmira College. Elmira, NY is a small town where he taught, wrote, and later died Comment by: bluefrostygirl I love Mark Twain and am glad I found this list. I'm going to add some of these quotes to my Facebook! Comment by: sweetmomu