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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A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
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We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare
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An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.
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Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.
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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
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The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.
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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?
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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.