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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Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see
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I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
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I am glad the old masters are all dead, and I only wish they had died sooner.
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I learned long ago never to say the obvious thing, but leave the obvious thing to commonplace and inexperienced people to say
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Pity is for living, envy is for dead.
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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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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose
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You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.