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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
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We are all alike, on the inside.
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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
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To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
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I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.
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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.