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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The house was as empty as a beer closet in a premises where painters have been at work.
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The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and thelightning bug.
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A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
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A most moving and pulse-stirring honor - the heartfelt grope of the hand, and the welcome that does not descend from the pale, gray matter of the brain but rushes up with the red blood of the heart
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All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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You can't reason with the heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
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The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.
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The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds
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The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little
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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