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The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

Mark Twain
Life, Men, Play
Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.517, University of Alabama Press

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Mark Twain (2017). “MARK TWAIN Ultimate Collection: 370+ Titles in One Volume (Illustrated): The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, The £1,000,000 Bank Note, A Horse’s Tale, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi…”, p.3737, e-artnow

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

Mark Twain
Life, Exercise, Insightful
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.359, Courier Corporation

The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

Mark Twain
Life, Perseverance, Determination
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.8022, Delphi Classics

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

Mark Twain
Life, Lasts, Born
Following the Equator ch. 42, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.

Mark Twain
Life, Society, Ifs
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.276, Delphi Classics

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

Mark Twain
Life, Death, Gratitude
Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 3, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ.

Mark Twain
Life, Science, Parent
Mark Twain (2003). “Tales of Wonder”, p.223, U of Nebraska Press

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