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 am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.
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I am glad the old masters are all dead, and I only wish they had died sooner.
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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.
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Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius.
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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to... its office holders.
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One learns through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect
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October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
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Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
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None of us had ever been anywhere before; we all hailed from the interior; travel was a wild novelty... We always took care to make it understood that we were Americans - Americans!
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My experience with Providence has not been of a nature to give me great confidence in his judgment, and I consider that my wife crept in while his attention was occupied elsewhere
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On Hawaii: The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean
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New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
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Only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once
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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know.