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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Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates - 1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion
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We have nine children now half boys and half girls.
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Children have but little charity for one another's defects
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If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.
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In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.
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By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.
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It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
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I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement
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Always obey your parents - when they are present.
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Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
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Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.
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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.