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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Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
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Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
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Rail-splitting produced an unparalleled president in Lincoln. But gold hasn't produced even a good A-1 congressman.
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Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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Probably nor'east to sou'west winds varying to the southard and westard and eastard and points between; high and low barometer, sweeping round from place to place; probably areas of rain, snow, heat and drought, succeeded or preceded by earth quakes
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Ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smo
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If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.
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I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them
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Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius.
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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to... its office holders.
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One learns through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect
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October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
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Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.