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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If I cannot smoke cigars in Heaven, I shall not go
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If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Benares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms, temples, stair flights, rich and stately palaces....soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances; and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge.
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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines. One tells them from the vinegar by the label.
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The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
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The funerals of these, ... do not occur often enough.
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The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco
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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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A great soul, with a great purpose, can make a weak body strong and keep it so
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A genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is 500 years away easier than he can a thing that's only 500 seconds off
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
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The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.
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The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds