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
house taxes profanity
I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.
food men dinner
When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface
writing benefits amusement
It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.
wine bottles red
One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.
war names memorial
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.
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Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.
genius hunger handmaids
Hunger is the handmaid of genius
humanity climate environment
It is your human environment that makes climate
regret future past
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment
heaven want bermuda
You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.
theatre stories sometimes
I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
work preaching worth-it
He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.
past men land
In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.
spiritual doubt done
When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.