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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Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
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Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.
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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.
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An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
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You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do
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And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.
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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.