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 man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
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In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice
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It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things that I can remember that aren't so.
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I could have made a neat retort but didn't, for I was flurried and didn't think of it till I was downstairs
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...It is hard to overestimate how far a man can go in America if he looks good on a horse.
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Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence and like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; and it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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