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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Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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...It is hard to overestimate how far a man can go in America if he looks good on a horse.
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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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We have pacified some thousands of the islanders and buried them; destroyed their fields; burned their villages, and turned their widows and orphans out-of-doors; furnished heartbreak by exile to some dozens of disagreeable patriots; subjugated the remaining 10 millions by Benevolent Assimilation, which is the pious new name of the musket. And so, by these Providences of God -- and the phrase is the government's, not mine -- we are a World Power.
american-author education schooling
I never let schooling interfere with my education.
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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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There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.