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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Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.
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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.
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A crowded police court docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty
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Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up
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No matter how healthy a man's morals may be when he enters the White House, he comes out again with a pot-marked soul
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The more I get to know about lawyers, the more I'm in favor of hangin'.
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A thoroughly beautiful woman and a thoroughly homely woman are creations which I love to gaze upon, and which I cannot tire of gazing upon, for each is perfect in her own line
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A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity
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A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes
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A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd have frozen to death.
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Anybody can write the first line of a poem, but is a very difficult task to make the second line rhyme with the first
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Any mummery will cure if the patient's faith is strong in it.