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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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
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Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
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When angry, count four; when very angry, swear
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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience 4000 critics.
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We recognize that there are no trivial occurences in life
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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.
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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong
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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