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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No matter how healthy a man's morals may be when he enters the White House, he comes out again with a pot-marked soul
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The more I get to know about lawyers, the more I'm in favor of hangin'.
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If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.
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I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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I am a border ruffian from the State of Missouri,I am a Connecticut Yankee by adoption.In me you have Missouri morals,Connecticut culture;this gentlemaen,is the combination which makes the perfect man
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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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How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.
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I could have made a neat retort but didn't, for I was flurried and didn't think of it till I was downstairs
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I do not like work even when someone else does it.
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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes
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A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
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You should never do anything wicked and lay it on your brother, when it is just as convenient to lay it on some other boy
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You shouldn't try to teach a pig to sing. You waste your time and it annoys the pig.