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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What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval
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When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved
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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
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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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Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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When angry, count four; when very angry, swear
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The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme
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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
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It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
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In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.
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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
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I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.