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
breeding concealing consists good ourselves
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
breeding concealing consists good
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of our selves, and how little we think of the other person
deal facts ourselves
We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves
benefit ourselves whose
We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves
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That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
army army-and-navy born borrowed courage fight
That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
happiness lose swedish
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
stars science mystery
There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.
truth use truth-is
Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.
christian country america
If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.
taken cake bugs
Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.
tired reason forbidden
Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
men average rights
I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.