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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There are no mistakes in life, there are only lessons to be learned: Adivce to the Youth.
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When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy
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Man is the master of the unspoken word, which spoken, is master of him.
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Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the 'blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.
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Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.
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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
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Never put off till to-morrow what you can do day after to-morrow just as well.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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I have been an author for 22 years and an ass for 55
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.