Creative Quotations from Mark Twain (1835-1910)

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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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I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S. Grant in full military regalia.

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

It is better to be a young June Bug than an old Bird of Paradise.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	On tax evaders; "Taxes and Morals," speech, 22 Jan. 1906, Carnegie Hall, New York City; repr. in "Complete Essays," ed. Charles Neider, 1963.
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A:	In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.
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