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• I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
  But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years....
• I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle.
  Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it--they also believed the world was flat.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else
  his is not advice, it is merely custom. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• I am quite sure that (bar one) I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices.
  Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. all that I care to know is that a man is a human being - that is enough for me...