Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
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Maybe it's not as bad as it sounds (when asked to comment on the music of Richard Wagner)
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Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
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Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
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Obscurity and competence - that is the life that is best worth living
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Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it
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Some of his words were not Sunday-school words.
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Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.
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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.
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Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius.
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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to... its office holders.
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The plan of the newspaper is good and wise; when you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one
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There are two forces that can carry light to all corners of the globe - the sun in the heavens and the associated press down here
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy
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Man is the master of the unspoken word, which spoken, is master of him.