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"This poor little one-horse town."
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Mark TwainCustoms do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But t — Mark Twain
"Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden."
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called
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"Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest."
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"To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin."
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"The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers;"
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"The minority is always in the right. The majority is always in the wrong."
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