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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If you think knowledge is dangerous, try ignorance
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I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born
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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines. One tells them from the vinegar by the label.
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The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
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The funerals of these, ... do not occur often enough.
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The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco
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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
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A great soul, with a great purpose, can make a weak body strong and keep it so
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A genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is 500 years away easier than he can a thing that's only 500 seconds off
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
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The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Benares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms, temples, stair flights, rich and stately palaces....soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances; and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge.
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The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or the scenery, but in the talking.
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The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.
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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.