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
characteristics humans
There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
somewhere-else advice household-chores
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.
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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.
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If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.
new-york men mark
Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.
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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
neat-and-tidy soul literature
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
american-author funny men mighty
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
american-author main nine
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
american-author obliged truth
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.