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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There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as ''American.''
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There it is: it doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.
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It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday.
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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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