Use the right word, not its second cousin. - Mark Twain

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Use the right word, not its second cousin.

Mark Twain

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About Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known as Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.

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Birth Name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Alternative Names: Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass • Samuel L. Clemens • Samuel Clemens • Quintus Curtius Snodgrass

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

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.