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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I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
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Anybody can write the first line of a poem, but is a very difficult task to make the second line rhyme with the first
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You shouldn't try to teach a pig to sing. You waste your time and it annoys the pig.
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Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it
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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said that I didn't know.
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There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
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The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.
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In his private heart no man much respects himself.
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India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!
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In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice
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In Boston they ask, ''How much does he know?'' In New York, ''How much is he worth?'' In Philadelphia, ''Who were his parents?''
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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
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Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes
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I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born