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This reads as a call to live with such fullness and warmth that our absence would be felt deeply. It can be taken to mean that a good life is measured not only by achievement, but by the human warmth we leave behind, and it lands when someone is choosing between comfort and a life that matters to others.
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About Mark Twain
American writer, humorist, and essayist
Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He is best known for the novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and for a body of work that helped define American writing in the late 19th century. His books also include A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Pudd'nhead Wilson. He co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today with Charles Dudley Warner. Twain's work is marked by wit, social satire, and a sharp eye for American life.
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Motivation: more sayings
- “Are you able to remain humble and kind when things do not go the way you want or expect? Be kind when you are…”Alaric Hutchinson
- “Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”Yehuda Bauer
- “While he hung on the cross, caught in the agony of such a death, Jesus found the strength to speak a handful…”Tessa Afshar
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Books by Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
One of his best-known novels.