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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, novelist, writer and lecturer. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

Twain, Mark · Adversity · 3 fans >>
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"Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes."

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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

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"Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world."

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"We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world."

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"We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier."

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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

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"All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."

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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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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

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