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
spiritual order race
A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.
use periods term
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.
horse animal lame
My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.
privilege dollars worship
We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.
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A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.
vulgarity-is people refined
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
people friendly taxation
I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.
song law care
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
travel society tourism
You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
sarcasm lips cynicism
Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.
election-time principles accounts
Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
justice pleasure ecstasy
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
prayer cutting enemy
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
parenting parent honest
My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.