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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It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
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It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
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It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
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It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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Man's mind clumsily and tediously and laboriously patches little trivialities together and gets a result - such as it is
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It is a pity that we cannot escape from life when we are young.
It is because they do not think at all; they only think they think.
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Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement.
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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering and that was the fact that it is past - and can't be restored
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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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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
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God puts something good and something lovable in every man His hands create.