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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Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody
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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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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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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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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.
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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
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Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.