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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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
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When angry, count four; when very angry, swear
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Use the right word and not its second cousin
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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience 4000 critics.
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We recognize that there are no trivial occurences in life
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The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
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Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.
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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.
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We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.
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We have nine children now half boys and half girls.
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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.