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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It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races
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It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling
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It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.
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It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday.
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It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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It is the creator of wrong; wrong cannot exist until Moral Sense brings it into being
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It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old
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The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample
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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.
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The way it is now, the asylums can hold all the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice
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There it is: it doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.
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Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.