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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A great soul, with a great purpose, can make a weak body strong and keep it so
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A genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is 500 years away easier than he can a thing that's only 500 seconds off
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The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and thelightning bug.
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A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
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A most moving and pulse-stirring honor - the heartfelt grope of the hand, and the welcome that does not descend from the pale, gray matter of the brain but rushes up with the red blood of the heart
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All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
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The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Benares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms, temples, stair flights, rich and stately palaces....soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances; and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge.
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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines. One tells them from the vinegar by the label.
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The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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It is a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed
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...It is hard to overestimate how far a man can go in America if he looks good on a horse.