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
exaggeration-is merit humans
It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
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I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.
san-francisco gone done
I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.
coward seems
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do
steps window habit
A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
clothes doe citizens
The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.
worst happened worst-things
Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.
insanity insane criminal-mind
Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles
neat-and-tidy soul literature
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
epic drawing silence
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
editors eggs bugs
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
funny compassion feelings
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.