Creative Quotations from . . .
Mark Twain
(1835-1910) born on Nov 30
US "novelist, journalist, river pilot". "The "Great American humorist" was also known as "The People's Author" and creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn."
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F
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

R
Be good and you will be lonesome.
A
"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her."
N
Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
K
"By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
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R: ""Following the Equator," caption for frontispiece photo of Twain."
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N: "In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
K: ""At the Shrine of St. Wagner," 1891; repr. in "Complete Essays," ed. Charles Neider, 1963."
   



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