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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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
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Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes
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I, Mark Twain being of sound mind, have spent everything
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Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word
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