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
community lazy sleepy
The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.
growing littles matter
It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.
able enough undertaker
I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.
beautiful new-orleans order
Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.
people earth destruction
There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.
imagination fields labor
Imagination labors best in distant fields.
government agriculture people
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.
thinking trying sentimental
I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.
hate love-you enemy
Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.
men waiting vacancy
A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.
religious brother men
Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.
government mind earth
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.
too-much enough
Too much is just enough.
pay favour ass
None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.