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Wisdom in Space 1h ago

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
-- Mark Twain

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WIST Quotations 1d ago

A quotation from Mark Twain

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch-digging.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Dictation (1907-07-30)

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Twain, Mark - Dictation (1907-07-30) | WIST Quotations

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch-digging. In Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith, eds., Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (pub. 2015). Also recorded in Bernard DeVoto, ed., Mark Twain in Eruption, "The Last Visit to England," ch. 1 "White and Red" (1940).…

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#MarkTwain is a better man than me... I'm good with it.

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World news | The Guardian 4d ago

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Bill Maher to receive Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain prize after White House denial

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John Autry 5d ago

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Wisdom in Space Mar 23

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.
-- Mark Twain

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MikeDunnAuthor Mar 22

Today in Labor History March 22, 1886: Mark Twain, who was a lifelong member of the International Typographical Union, gave a speech entitled, “Knights of Labor: The New Dynasty.” In the speech, he commended the Knights’ commitment to fair treatment of all workers, regardless of race or gender. “When all the bricklayers, and all the machinists, and all the miners, and blacksmiths, and printers, and stevedores, and housepainters, and brakemen, and engineers . . . and factory hands, and all the shop girls, and all the sewing machine women, and all the telegraph operators, in a word, all the myriads of toilers in whom is slumbering the reality of that thing which you call Power, ...when these rise, call the vast spectacle by any deluding name that will please your ear, but the fact remains that a Nation has risen.”

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WIST Quotations Mar 20

A quotation from Twain

But banish care, it’s no time for it now — on with the dance, let joy be unconfined is my motto, whether there’s any dance to dance; or any joy to unconfine — you’ll be the healthier for it every time, — every time, Washington — it’s my experience, and I’ve seen a good deal of this world.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1892), The American Claimant, ch. 2 [Col. Sellers]

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Twain, Mark - Story (1892), The American Claimant, ch. 2 [Col. Sellers] | WIST Quotations

But banish care, it's no time for it now -- on with the dance, let joy be unconfined is my motto, whether there's any dance to dance; or any joy to unconfine -- you'll be the healthier for it every time, -- every time, Washington -- it's my experience, and…

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