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 pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it
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The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.
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The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme
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I never let schooling interfere with my education.
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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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A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
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A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose