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
religious religion littles
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.
motivational success travel
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
epic drawing silence
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
men mind courses
Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.
dirty pigs likes
Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
heart eye house
To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.
night race age
In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.
wine men majority-vote
There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.
truth lying men
An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.