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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Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles
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Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
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Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
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Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.
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What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
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There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.
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The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him
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The people stared at us everywhere, and we stared at them. We bore down on them with America's greatness until we crushed them.
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When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved
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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
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How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
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The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.