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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Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.
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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.
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If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.
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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.
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Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.
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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends
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Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.
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Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.