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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Maybe it's not as bad as it sounds (when asked to comment on the music of Richard Wagner)
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I, Mark Twain being of sound mind, have spent everything
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The late Bill Nye once said, 'I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
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A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.
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It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.
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Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.
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What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.
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It's not as bad as it sounds.
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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