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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Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.
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Maybe it's not as bad as it sounds (when asked to comment on the music of Richard Wagner)
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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
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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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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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I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot
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I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.