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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I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them
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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
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I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.
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God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.
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No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.
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You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.
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A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
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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.
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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering and that was the fact that it is past - and can't be restored
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We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves