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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Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff.
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Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned
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Earn a character first if you can. And if you can't, assume one.
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None but the dead have free speech. None but the dead are permitted to speak truth.
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No man has a wholly undiseased mind; in one way or another all men are mad
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Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....
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Never put off till to-morrow what you can do day after to-morrow just as well.
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Not all horses were born equal. A few were born to win.
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It takes me along time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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It usually takes me three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you
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It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
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It will start in here in November and rain about four, and sometimes as much as seven days on a stretch; after that, you may loan out your umbrella for twelve months, with the serene confidence which a Christian feels in four aces