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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Mardi Gras is a thing which could hardly exist in the practical North. For the soul of it is the romantic, not the funny and the grotesque. Take away the romantic mysteries, the kings and knights and big-sounding titles, and Mardi-Gras would die, down there in the South.
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All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
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There is a great deal of human nature in people.
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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
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Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million
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The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.
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If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go.
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How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.
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A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.
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A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt
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A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.
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The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.
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Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.
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I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.