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
dangerous generalization
Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
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I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.
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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.
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An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
apples want sake
Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.
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Be good and you'll be lonesome
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Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.
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The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone
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When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.
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I was born modest, but it didn't last.
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Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.
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This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.
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Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.
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This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.