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 easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.
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None but the dead have free speech. None but the dead are permitted to speak truth.
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No man has a wholly undiseased mind; in one way or another all men are mad
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Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....
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Never put off till to-morrow what you can do day after to-morrow just as well.
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Not all horses were born equal. A few were born to win.
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It takes me along time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! -- incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
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Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word
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The lack of money is the root of all evils.
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There it is: it doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you
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It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.