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
growing-up aunt president
Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
switzerland bigs flats
Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.
dies ifs
Ah, if he could only die temporarily!
atheist atheism vagrants
Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.
silence progressive achieve
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.
ignorant roger wells
Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.
heart sound guides
A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.
problem poor offspring
Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.
girl school licking
What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?
beautiful men-and-women acquaintance
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.
beautiful memories mind
Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.
sad laughter sorrow
The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.
wise suicide two
Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.
children giving-up way
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.