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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Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.
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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.
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Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.
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There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?
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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.
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Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes
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I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.
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What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.
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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
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Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?
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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.