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
satan helpers millions
Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.
country religious war
To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?
god enough made
Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.
ties stupidity littles
He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.
miracle style too-much
You can't throw too much style into a miracle.
book good-company company
If books are not good company, where shall I find it?
men imagination figments
Man - a figment of God's imagination.
work
I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.
home names california
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.
age aging remember
The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.
easy hard
It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.
order narrative plot
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE
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She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.
freedom liberty irreverence
A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.