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 was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said that I didn't know.
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I was sorry to have my name mentioned among the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off
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Cast iron rules will not answer what is one man's colon is another man's comma
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But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface
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I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot
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I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.
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I have been an author for 22 years and an ass for 55
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Some of his words were not Sunday-school words.
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Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.
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My advice to girls: first, don't smoke to excess; second, don't drink to excess; third, don't marry to excess.
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Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.
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Maybe it's not as bad as it sounds (when asked to comment on the music of Richard Wagner)
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Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
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Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.