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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Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by an
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Spirit has fifty times the strength and staying-power of brawn and muscle
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By his father he is English, by his mother he is American - to my mind the blend which makes the perfect man
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities
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His liberties were totally unrestricted, ... He was the only really independent person - boy or man - in the community, and by consequence he was tranquilly and continuously happy and envied by the rest of us.
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Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! -- incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
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Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word
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The lack of money is the root of all evils.
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I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
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I have told him all I know about it. And now he knows nothing about it himself.
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I have traveled more than any one else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent
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I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
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I have no race prejudice. I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being -- that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices