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
bad book bring character good remain sealed side
There is a good side and a bad side to most people, and in accordance with your own character and disposition you will bring out one of them and the other will remain a sealed book to you
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God puts something good and something lovable in every man His hands create.
assume character earn
Earn a character first if you can. And if you can't, assume one.
fall character atheism
When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.
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Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.
character firsts assuming
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.
teaching character writing
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations
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It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
respect book character
As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.
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There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
atheist character angel
Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.
love character winning
Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.
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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.