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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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
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If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary
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There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.
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We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.
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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
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There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
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All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.
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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
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I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
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There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.