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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The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little
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The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism
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The innocent who could laugh with joy didn't dare to because they were sitting beside a guilty friend who didn't dare to
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The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or the scenery, but in the talking.
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The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.
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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
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The house was as empty as a beer closet in a premises where painters have been at work.
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You can't reason with the heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.
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There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the fleeting of a luminous mote through the thin ray of sunlight - and it is visible but a fraction of a second. The moments that preceded it have been lived, are forgotten and are without value; the moments that have not been lived have no existence and will have no value except in the moment that each shall be lived. While you are asleep you are dead; and whether you stay dead an hour or a billion years the time to you is the same.
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Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.
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...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'
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It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when he came down to earth, he became the opposite... sweet, gentle merciful, forgiving. He was a thousand billion times crueler than ever he was in the Old Testament... Meek and gentle? By and by we will examine that popular sarcasm by the light of the hell which he invented.
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You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.