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
optimistic positivity optimism
Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
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The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
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The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.
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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.
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Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.
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A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare
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An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.