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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He saw nearly all things as through a glass eye, darkly
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The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him
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There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.
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Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it
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Pity is for living, envy is for dead.
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Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside
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Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in
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God has put somrthing noble and good into every heart His hand created.
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Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use
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He was as shy as a newspaper is when referring to its own merits
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He was a preacher, too... and never charged nothing for his preaching, and it was worth it, too.
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He would go to Halifax for half a chance to show off and he would go to hell for a whole one
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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think / yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.