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's private thought can never be a lie; what he thinks, is to him the truth, always
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Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language
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He was as shy as a newspaper is when referring to its own merits
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A scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.
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Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
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A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity
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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines. One tells them from the vinegar by the label.
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I am a border ruffian from the State of Missouri,I am a Connecticut Yankee by adoption.In me you have Missouri morals,Connecticut culture;this gentlemaen,is the combination which makes the perfect man
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Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself
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All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live
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One learns through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect
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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.
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The house was as empty as a beer closet in a premises where painters have been at work.