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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The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or the scenery, but in the talking.
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Youth is wonderful. It's a shame to waste it on the young.
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I do not want Michaelangelo for breakfast - but for luncheon - for dinner - for tea - for supper - for between meals.
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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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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written
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Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of our selves, and how little we think of the other person
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He saw nearly all things as through a glass eye, darkly
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people alwaysdo that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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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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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain
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A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval
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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.