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 will start in here in November and rain about four, and sometimes as much as seven days on a stretch; after that, you may loan out your umbrella for twelve months, with the serene confidence which a Christian feels in four aces
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The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.
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The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.
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The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds
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The funerals of these, ... do not occur often enough.
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The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco
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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
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The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little
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The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism
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The innocent who could laugh with joy didn't dare to because they were sitting beside a guilty friend who didn't dare to
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The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or the scenery, but in the talking.
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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
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The house was as empty as a beer closet in a premises where painters have been at work.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.