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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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.
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The way it is now, the asylums can hold all the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials
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When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.
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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
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Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane...
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But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.
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Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles
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I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
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It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake
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It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things that I can remember that aren't so.
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It is not likely that any complete life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person that lived it
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Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement.
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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering and that was the fact that it is past - and can't be restored
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We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves