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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There are two forces that can carry light to all corners of the globe - the sun in the heavens and the associated press down here
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
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There are no mistakes in life, there are only lessons to be learned: Adivce to the Youth.
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
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Pity is for living, envy is for dead.
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Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside
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Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in
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Such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down on the doctor's bills like everything.
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Surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues inflamed by disease.
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Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
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Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by an