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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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.
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I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot
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I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.
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I have been an author for 22 years and an ass for 55
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I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
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If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - a Christian
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I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it
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I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant
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To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing
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When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
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The plan of the newspaper is good and wise; when you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one
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There are two forces that can carry light to all corners of the globe - the sun in the heavens and the associated press down here
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy
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Maybe it's not as bad as it sounds (when asked to comment on the music of Richard Wagner)