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 Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.
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Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
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isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
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Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.
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Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.
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To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.
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Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.
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We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.
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Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.
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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?
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Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
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Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.
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What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.