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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Obscurity and competence - that is the life that is best worth living
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Man is the master of the unspoken word, which spoken, is master of him.
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Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence and like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; and it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style
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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the 'blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.
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Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.
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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.
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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates - 1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion
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Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.
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To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing
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When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
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The plan of the newspaper is good and wise; when you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one