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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I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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I am a border ruffian from the State of Missouri,I am a Connecticut Yankee by adoption.In me you have Missouri morals,Connecticut culture;this gentlemaen,is the combination which makes the perfect man
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How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.
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I could have made a neat retort but didn't, for I was flurried and didn't think of it till I was downstairs
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I do not like work even when someone else does it.
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Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer
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If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.
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Do not put off till tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well
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You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
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Youth is wonderful. It's a shame to waste it on the young.
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It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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It is the creator of wrong; wrong cannot exist until Moral Sense brings it into being
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It's a great place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit there