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 rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him
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The people stared at us everywhere, and we stared at them. We bore down on them with America's greatness until we crushed them.
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What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval
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When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved
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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
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How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme
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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
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It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.