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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It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
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It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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Man's mind clumsily and tediously and laboriously patches little trivialities together and gets a result - such as it is
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...It is hard to overestimate how far a man can go in America if he looks good on a horse.
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It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - and less trouble
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It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble!
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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
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I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolish
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It is a pity that we cannot escape from life when we are young.
It is because they do not think at all; they only think they think.
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Mardi Gras is a thing which could hardly exist in the practical North. For the soul of it is the romantic, not the funny and the grotesque. Take away the romantic mysteries, the kings and knights and big-sounding titles, and Mardi-Gras would die, down there in the South.
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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering and that was the fact that it is past - and can't be restored
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I saw a cat yesterday with 4 legs and yet it was only a yellow cat, and rather small, too, for its size. They were not all fore legs several of them were hind legs; indeed almost a majority of them were.