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
cat hot cold
The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.
work law cash
The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.
funny-relationship thinking men
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.
dream crazy vagrants
Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.
fun heaven world
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company
mean men ideas
Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.
ideas world curious
The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.
religious people
Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.
christian religious caught
There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.
women spring hot
A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.
nature rainbow forget
One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.
opinion instance persons
Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.
religious book reading
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.
religious errors feelings
...and last but not least, reflecting my feelings on proofreading...excuse any pages on my websites that have misspelled words or grammatical errors...I'm not a proofreader of any great merit.