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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Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it
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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said that I didn't know.
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You shouldn't try to teach a pig to sing. You waste your time and it annoys the pig.
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Anybody can write the first line of a poem, but is a very difficult task to make the second line rhyme with the first
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I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
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The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.
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It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things that I can remember that aren't so.
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It is not likely that any complete life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person that lived it
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Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement.
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