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
hair argument grows
There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.
god educational tired
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
motivational educational two
If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.
funny humor sublime
I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.
funny inspiring dog
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
book taken inspiration
All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.
men average medicine
A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
travel memorable carpe-diem
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.