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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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy with the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
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We can't reach old age by another man's road.
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Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
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My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.
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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
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I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
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It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake
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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.