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Mark Twain has a thought about: DILIGENCE

“Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more - restful.”

- Speech 30 March 1901

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Mark Twain has a thought about: NECESSITY

“Necessity is the mother of taking chances.”

- Roughing It

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How much do you know about Mark Twain? Find out with this fun little 10-question quiz in the intellectual playground at 500ways.com/mark-twain-q... ( #MarkTwain, #SamuelClemmens, #riverboat, #literature, #TomSawyer, #HuckleberryFinn, #youngAdult, #writer, #author, #USHistory)

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Mark Twain has a thought about: The Promise

“To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.”

- Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. —Mark Twain

#MarkTwain #great

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❤️ 'The report of my death was an exaggeration… #MarkTwain, not #OscarWilde'. Jonathan would nonetheless have had the chance enjoy both their works in the original first editions ❤️

🐢 At 194 years old, Jonathan, a #Seychelles giant #tortoise, is the world’s oldest known land animal 🐢

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❤️ 'The report of my death was an exaggeration… #MarkTwain, not #OscarWilde'. Jonathan would nonetheless have had the chance enjoy both their works in the original first editions ❤️
🐢 At 194 years old, Jonathan, a #Seychelles giant #tortoise, is the world’s oldest known land animal 🐢

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❤️ At 194yo, Jonathan, a #Seychelles giant #tortoise, is the world’s oldest known land animal 🐢

🐢 The report of my death was an exaggeration… #MarkTwain, not #OscarWilde. Jonathan would nonetheless have had the chance enjoy both their works in the original first editions 🐢

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#marktwain

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The Autobiography of Mark Twain!
#vintagegift #Paperback #book #MarkTwain #Autobiography #Memoir #nonfiction #AuthorsOfX #AuthorSpotlight #writer #novelist #TomSawyer #HuckleberryFinn #HistoryMatters #classic #freeshipping @2Fun4Words

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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. - Mark Twain
#MarkTwain #fools #aprilfoolsday

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Mark Twain has a thought about: April Fool’s Day

“This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”

- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. —Mark Twain

#MarkTwain #great

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Mark Twain has a thought about: THE VOTE

“Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.”

- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour

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#MarkTwain “fretted that “ ‘communists & the asinine government” might take away their funds. In the mean time, they had decided to stop worrying about money…”

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I would jest that the #MarkTwain award (which is going to Bill Maher, reportedly, the cuntiest voice in a cunty game) is about to be devalued significantly, but they’ve already given it to Bill Cosby 🤦‍♀️

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Mark Twain has a thought about: BELIEFS

“Between believing a thing and thinking you know is only a small step and quickly taken.”

- 3,000 Years Among the Microbes

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Mark Twain’s War Prayer should be read by everyone At a Christian worship service last week, defense secretary Pete Hegseth gave the following prayer. “Let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation. Give th…

#MarkTwain ’s #War #Prayer should be read by everyone

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1️⃣ Ik zou bij de #NRC nu eerder van #neoliberalisme dan van #liberalisme spreken.
2️⃣ Neoliberalisme is de facto een #WinnerTakesAll #kapitalisme.
Om met #MarkTwain te spreken: Rumours about my death are greatly exaggerated…

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The Autobiography of Mark Twain!
#vintagegift #Paperback #book #MarkTwain #Autobiography #Memoir #nonfiction #AuthorsOfX #AuthorSpotlight #writer #novelist #TomSawyer #HuckleberryFinn #HistoryMatters #classic #freeshipping @2Fun4Words

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A quotation from Mark Twain

> A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch-digging.

**Mark Twain** (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Dictation (1907-07-30)

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More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/69430/

#quote #quotes #quotation […]

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Kenny The Bartender here, serving up some wise words from Mark Twain...
#MarkTwain #Land #RealEstate #GrumpyDingoRadio

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#MarkTwain , in 1861 and Richard F. Burton, in 1860, rode the Overland Stagecoach to Carson City, Nevada Territory. This PDF borrows from the respective commentaries of the journey: Twain's "Roughing It" and Burton's "The City of the Saints".
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#MarkTwain is a better man than me...

I'm good with it.

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Mark Twain has a thought about: POPULARITY

“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

- Notebook, 1895

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and other works by #MarkTwain gave us archetypes of modern America. The lovable scalp of a small town boy who dreams of a wider world; it could be Tom Sawyer or Luke Skywalker.

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Another new fangled thing of the Gilded Age was new fangled things. Technology, advancement. The utopian future, the difficulty and stress of constant change. The fear of dystopia and the fascination with gadgets. #MarkTwain wrote of all this, and these things still excite us and vex us.

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PT Barnum’s first name? Phineas. He and #MarkTwain shared a mutual interest in the effected of marketing gimmicks.

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Mark Twain has a thought about: KINGS

“There is nothing diviner about a king than there is about a tramp, after all. He is just a cheap and hollow artificiality when you don't know he is a king.
I reckon we are all fools."

- A Connecticut Yankee

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