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
kind persons
To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.
motivational perfection improvement
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
dream focus doubt
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.
wisdom garden eden
Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.
eye heart judging
The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.
mistake apples want
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
inspirational life judgement
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.
inspirational funny life
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
inspirational life bullying
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
truth inspirational-life fiction
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
religious men fool
Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
inspirational funny friendship
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.