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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If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
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Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.
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Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.
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The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.
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In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.
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I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.
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I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.
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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.
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The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.
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I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.
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One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.
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The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.