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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Well, we can take you to meet Napoleon -- but he's shining the boots of the person who actually was the world's greatest military genius. He happens to have been a tinsmith from Pennsylvania who never had a chance to go to a military academy -- so he never even knew he was a great military genius. He was born with that capacity -- and only here in heaven do we actually know who these people are.
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Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.
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Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people alwaysdo that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water
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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
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There is a great deal of human nature in people.
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The people stared at us everywhere, and we stared at them. We bore down on them with America's greatness until we crushed them.
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I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain
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Four years at West Point and plenty of books and schooling will learn a man a great deal, It won't learn him the river.
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Boy, can't you feel the ghosts of a century and a half of great thinkers, especially Twain?
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I was sorry to have my name mentioned among the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off
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My experience with Providence has not been of a nature to give me great confidence in his judgment, and I consider that my wife crept in while his attention was occupied elsewhere