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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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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There are two forces that can carry light to all corners of the globe - the sun in the heavens and the associated press down here
anywhere care none took travel understood wild
None of us had ever been anywhere before; we all hailed from the interior; travel was a wild novelty... We always took care to make it understood that we were Americans - Americans!
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn by no other way
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It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.
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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.
travel pain care
To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.
song law care
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
food thinking care
We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.
lying race care
When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?
truth care sometimes
I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.
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If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'
country men care
It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.
flower thinking care
He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.