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Mark Twain Quotes

«Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination»
«Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned»
«Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.»
«I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's»
«Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow»
«It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.»
«It's spring fever.... You don't quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!»
«What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin»
«There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages»
«There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.»