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 of us had ever been anywhere before; we all hailed from the interior; travel was a wild novelty... We always took care to make it understood that we were Americans - Americans!
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My experience with Providence has not been of a nature to give me great confidence in his judgment, and I consider that my wife crept in while his attention was occupied elsewhere
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My advice to girls: first, don't smoke to excess; second, don't drink to excess; third, don't marry to excess.
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Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.
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I do not want Michaelangelo for breakfast - but for luncheon - for dinner - for tea - for supper - for between meals.
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I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.
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I am glad the old masters are all dead, and I only wish they had died sooner.
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Cast iron rules will not answer what is one man's colon is another man's comma
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But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface
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Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it
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On Hawaii: The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean
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New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
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Only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once
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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know.