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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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To be envied is the human being's chiefest joy.
- No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger

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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
- "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"

Envy--the only thing which men will sell both body and soul to get.
- "Concerning the Jews"


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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
- "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"

I was getting boiled to death in my own bile.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013)

Twain and angelfish

Mark Twain with Louise Paine and Dorothy Harvey


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