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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None but the dead have free speech.
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There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;
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The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.
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Definite speech means clarity of mind.
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In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
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Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.
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It usually takes me three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech
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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