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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Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.
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We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.
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We have nine children now half boys and half girls.
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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.
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When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.
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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language
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I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
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I have told him all I know about it. And now he knows nothing about it himself.
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I have traveled more than any one else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent
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By his father he is English, by his mother he is American - to my mind the blend which makes the perfect man
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities