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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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
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. . . a man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community have at heart if he would be liked . . .
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself as a liar
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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house
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A man's private thought can never be a lie; what he thinks, is to him the truth, always
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn by no other way
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America is built on a tilt, and everything loose slides towards California.
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There it is: it doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain
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A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
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A coin, sleeve button, or a collar button dropped in a bedroom will hide itself and be hard to find. A handkerchief in bed 'can't' be found.
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A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.