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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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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You shouldn't try to teach a pig to sing. You waste your time and it annoys the pig.
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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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I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
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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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What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
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When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama
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When a man is known to have no settled convictions of his own he can't convict other people
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The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion
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The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive, but in spite of their religion, not because of it
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I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve a term or two in the penitentiary to be perfect
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The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample