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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Youth is wonderful. It's a shame to waste it on the young.
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There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as ''American.''
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There is no use in walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
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There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me --I always feel that they have not said enough.
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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in
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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it
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Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- Watch That Basket.
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Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
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Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
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Rail-splitting produced an unparalleled president in Lincoln. But gold hasn't produced even a good A-1 congressman.
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Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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Probably nor'east to sou'west winds varying to the southard and westard and eastard and points between; high and low barometer, sweeping round from place to place; probably areas of rain, snow, heat and drought, succeeded or preceded by earth quakes
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Ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smo