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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Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.
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Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.
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We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.
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When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.
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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.
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They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.
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There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.
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Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.
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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.
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Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?
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It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.
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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.
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Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.
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The two most important days if your life are the day you are born...and the day you find out why having multiple screens for your computer is so awesome because now reports and grants are like a billion times easier!