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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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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All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
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Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.
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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
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It is a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed
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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