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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You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.
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People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.
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Forgiveness is the smell that lavender gives out when you tread on it
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Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.
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The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
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Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.
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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.
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A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.
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But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.
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Everything human is pathetic
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The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.
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My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.
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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.
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In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however,the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.