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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Well, we can take you to meet Napoleon -- but he's shining the boots of the person who actually was the world's greatest military genius. He happens to have been a tinsmith from Pennsylvania who never had a chance to go to a military academy -- so he never even knew he was a great military genius. He was born with that capacity -- and only here in heaven do we actually know who these people are.
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Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.
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Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
belittle great people small
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people alwaysdo that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
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We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead / and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.
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Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use
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The people stared at us everywhere, and we stared at them. We bore down on them with America's greatness until we crushed them.
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I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them
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There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.
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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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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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Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.