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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He was as shy as a newspaper is when referring to its own merits
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He was a preacher, too... and never charged nothing for his preaching, and it was worth it, too.
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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think / yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
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If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - a Christian
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I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it
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Get the facts first. You can distort them later.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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France had neither winter nor summer nor morals - apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country
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Four years at West Point and plenty of books and schooling will learn a man a great deal, It won't learn him the river.
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I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.
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I am glad the old masters are all dead, and I only wish they had died sooner.