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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I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse
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I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
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I, Mark Twain being of sound mind, have spent everything
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Nothing needs more change than someone else's patterns.
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Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kind of people
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I owe a friend a dozen chickens, and I believe it will be cheaper to send eggs instead, and let them develop on the road.
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If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language
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But we are fearfully and wonderfully made, and we glorious Americans will occasionally astonish the God that created us when we get a fair start
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Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it
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Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer
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If I cannot swear in heaven I shall not stay there.
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If I cannot smoke cigars in Heaven, I shall not go