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

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I feel for Adam and Eve now, for I know how it was with them....The Garden of Eden I now know was an unendurable solitude. I know that the advent of the serpent was a welcome change--anything for society.
-Mark Twain, a Biography

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Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to -- both have their advantages, "heaven for climate, hell for company!"
- Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Vol. 3 (Notebook 29)

...heaven for climate; hell for society.
- Mark Twain's Speeches (1910) "Tammany and Croker speech," 1901

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.
- Mark Twain's Notebook, 1902-1903

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

There are no common people except in the highest spheres of society.
- quoted in Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field, Henry W. Fisher (1922)

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Portrait by Charles N. Flagg

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