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
fashion clothes modesty
Modesty died when clothes were born.
chastity
Chastity - you can carry it too far.
writing censorship print
We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.
flower world gone
A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.
characteristics humans
There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
pain heart race
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.
good-luck luck return
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
daughter people luck
All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.
heart luck nine
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.
men luck helping
They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.
hands luck honest
Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!
luck ignorant way
It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.
cat boys two
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.
poverty wealth crime
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.