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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Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists
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Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.
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Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.
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The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.
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...fry me an optimist for breakfast.
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That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.
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It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.
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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.
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The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little
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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