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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It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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No better liar had there been in these parts as that ball player with hams for arms unless he be a man with a fishing rod and tackle box in his hands and his feet wet as rain.
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The average American girl possesses the valuable qualities of naturalness, honesty, and inoffensive straightforwardness; she is nearly barren of troublesome conventions and artificialities; consequently, her presence and her ways are unembarrassing,
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Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself
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Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kind of people
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain
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A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
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A coin, sleeve button, or a collar button dropped in a bedroom will hide itself and be hard to find. A handkerchief in bed 'can't' be found.
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A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.
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Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
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Its easier to stay out than get out
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It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling