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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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see
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In his private heart no man much respects himself.
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God has put somrthing noble and good into every heart His hand created.
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. . . a man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community have at heart if he would be liked . . .
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Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house
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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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A most moving and pulse-stirring honor - the heartfelt grope of the hand, and the welcome that does not descend from the pale, gray matter of the brain but rushes up with the red blood of the heart
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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