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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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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Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
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Obscurity and competence - that is the life that is best worth living
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The Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo
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The convention miscalled 'modesty' has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice
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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain
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A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
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A coin, sleeve button, or a collar button dropped in a bedroom will hide itself and be hard to find. A handkerchief in bed 'can't' be found.
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A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.
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Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
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Its easier to stay out than get out
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It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling