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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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.
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December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.
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There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting.
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To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.
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That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.
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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.
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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
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It is higher and nobler to be kind.
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The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.
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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
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Distance lends enchantment to the view.
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A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.