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 very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.
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I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.
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A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
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Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.
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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.
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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
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It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.
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When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.
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We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.
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We have nine children now half boys and half girls.
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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
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The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.