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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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
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Use the right word and not its second cousin
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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
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To make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.
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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
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Get the facts first. You can distort them later.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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France had neither winter nor summer nor morals - apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country
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Four years at West Point and plenty of books and schooling will learn a man a great deal, It won't learn him the river.
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I even ate in the famous clubhouse twice and stood right next to Jack Nicklaus there!
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I do not want Michaelangelo for breakfast - but for luncheon - for dinner - for tea - for supper - for between meals.
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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.