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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Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.
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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
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The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.
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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?
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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.
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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.
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Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
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A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.
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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.