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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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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I learned long ago never to say the obvious thing, but leave the obvious thing to commonplace and inexperienced people to say
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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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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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All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live
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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
belittle great people small
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.
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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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Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
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Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
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People born to be hanged are safe in water.
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Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kind of people
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It's better to keep quiet and have people think you stupid, than to talk and confirm it.