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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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.
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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
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If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.
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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
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My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.
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Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.
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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!
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I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.
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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
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Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
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The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him
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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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The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.