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 had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with.
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
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What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval
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There is a great deal of human nature in people.
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There is a good side and a bad side to most people, and in accordance with your own character and disposition you will bring out one of them and the other will remain a sealed book to you
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There is no end to the laws, and no beginning to the execution of them
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The people stared at us everywhere, and we stared at them. We bore down on them with America's greatness until we crushed them.
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When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved
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Such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down on the doctor's bills like everything.
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Surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues inflamed by disease.
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Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
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Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.