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 system of refusing the mere act of drinking and leaving the desire in full force, is unintelligent war tactics, it seems to me
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy
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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work
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Thrusting my nose firmly between his teeth, I threw him heavily to the ground on top of me
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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain
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Your actions speak so much louder than words.
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Do something everyday that you don't want to do.
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Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
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...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.
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The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.
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The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism
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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?