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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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
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Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times.
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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No better liar had there been in these parts as that ball player with hams for arms unless he be a man with a fishing rod and tackle box in his hands and his feet wet as rain.
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The average American girl possesses the valuable qualities of naturalness, honesty, and inoffensive straightforwardness; she is nearly barren of troublesome conventions and artificialities; consequently, her presence and her ways are unembarrassing,
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Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself
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A scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.
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A thoroughly beautiful woman and a thoroughly homely woman are creations which I love to gaze upon, and which I cannot tire of gazing upon, for each is perfect in her own line
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A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity
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A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
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Conscience takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides.
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Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority
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Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.