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NOVELISTS > novelist, journalist, river pilot > Mark Twain
Duties are not...
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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -- the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
Source: Old Man, in What Is Man? sct. 2, 1906; repr. in Complete Essays, ed. by Charles Neider, 1963.
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), 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.