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

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SOUL

I didn't care much about evolution, but when they struck the doctrine of metempsychosis, I got interested. That doctrine accounts for me: I knew there was something the matter, but never knew what it was before. It 's the passing off on a man of an old, damaged, second-hand soul that makes all the trouble.
- quoted in Sketches and Reminiscences of the Radical Club, 1880

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it-- they also believed the world was flat.
- Notebook, 1900

rare portrait of Clemens

calendar page
Page from 1917 Mark Twain Calendar
published by Sully and Kleinteich of NY
by arrangement with
Harper & Brothers
from the
Dave Thomson collection
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
- Following the Equator, Pudd'nead Wilson's Calendar

...a great soul, with a great purpose, can make a weak body strong and keep it so.
- Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

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