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 Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo
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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin
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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
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There are many scapegoats for our blunders, but the most popular one is Providence
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Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so
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To make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man
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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
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We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead / and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.
You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about transposition of epochs--and bodies?
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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.
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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong
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I never let schooling interfere with my education.
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.