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
history repeat
History does not repeat itself. But it does rhyme.
history looks older together twice
Varanasi" is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice
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India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!
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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.
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History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.
history humiliating
It's so damned humiliating.
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By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
history sometimes rhyme
History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.
past history doe
The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
past history facts
I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes