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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I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
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In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.
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It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
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Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so
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Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
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Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon
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Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
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Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as much as you please
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Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
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Do not put off till tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well
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You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.