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 so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive, but in spite of their religion, not because of it
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I have traveled more than any one else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Conscience takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides.
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Boy, can't you feel the ghosts of a century and a half of great thinkers, especially Twain?
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It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
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Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
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None but the dead have free speech. None but the dead are permitted to speak truth.
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Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by an
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Man's mind clumsily and tediously and laboriously patches little trivialities together and gets a result - such as it is
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.