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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Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.
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Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
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In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.
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The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism
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The innocent who could laugh with joy didn't dare to because they were sitting beside a guilty friend who didn't dare to
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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.
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The house was as empty as a beer closet in a premises where painters have been at work.