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 vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.
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Earn a character first if you can. And if you can't, assume one.
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There are two forces that can carry light to all corners of the globe - the sun in the heavens and the associated press down here
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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.
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It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.
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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.
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None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.
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Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.
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I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.
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Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned
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At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
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We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.
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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.