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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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by an
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It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
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To make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.
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The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him
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But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface
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God puts something good and something lovable in every man His hands create.
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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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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written
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Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as much as you please
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When a man is known to have no settled convictions of his own he can't convict other people
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Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.
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Man is the master of the unspoken word, which spoken, is master of him.