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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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy
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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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...It is hard to overestimate how far a man can go in America if he looks good on a horse.
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All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live
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Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
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A coin, sleeve button, or a collar button dropped in a bedroom will hide itself and be hard to find. A handkerchief in bed 'can't' be found.
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Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling
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I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve a term or two in the penitentiary to be perfect
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I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.
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Any mummery will cure if the patient's faith is strong in it.
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain
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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.