Mark Twain

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    Farnan said: January 28, 2010 08:54 PM

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    Got to love this author, among the greatest born in the United States.

    He served for a few weeks in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, here is his account:

    http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/phctf.html
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    “The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.”

    —Sir William Francis Butler
     

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    Captain Jin said: January 29, 2010 04:53 AM

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    I'm distantly related to him through marriage so not actually married to him but whatever that's more than you can say so neener neener neener!
     

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    Katsumoto said: January 29, 2010 06:51 AM

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    Mark Twain is great, whenever I'm bored I'll read some of his quotes, man was a genius.
    "I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof."
    - John Adams, on the White House, in a letter to Abigail Adams (2 November 1800)
     

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    Captain Jin said: January 29, 2010 06:55 AM

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    He is a true American classic. It's funny he worked for the Virginia City newspaper for some time and if you ever go to that town in Nevada it's like .... wow, really Mark?
     

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    Katsumoto said: January 29, 2010 07:20 AM

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    Some of my favourite quotes of his:

    Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

    “It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.”

    “The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”

    "All generalizations are false, including this one."

    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”

    “It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

    "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

    "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

    "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

    "Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times."

    "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

    "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."

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

    "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." < This is what I base my life on.

    "Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."

    "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work."


    Ok that was quite a lot.
    "I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof."
    - John Adams, on the White House, in a letter to Abigail Adams (2 November 1800)
     

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    Farnan said: January 29, 2010 02:03 PM

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    Awesome quotes.

    http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMM.../lying-bed.htm

    Awesome essay, really good message.
    “The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.”

    —Sir William Francis Butler