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
cat home tails
A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
inspiration land estates
Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
country law government
[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.
hair mouths uneasy
An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.
math science years
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.
sleep men smoking
Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.
religious ideas always-trying
The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example
education wise stupid
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
funny humor cat
A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
writing editors criticism
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
sad writing-history historical
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
pride trouble temper
Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
writing hands looks
Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.