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 crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.
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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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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think / yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.
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Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catchphrases of politicians. Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let man label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country- hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of.
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Mardi Gras is a thing which could hardly exist in the practical North. For the soul of it is the romantic, not the funny and the grotesque. Take away the romantic mysteries, the kings and knights and big-sounding titles, and Mardi-Gras would die, down there in the South.
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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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God puts something good and something lovable in every man His hands create.
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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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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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Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius.
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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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I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them
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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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History does not repeat itself. But it does rhyme.