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
apart country drawbacks fine france morals neither nor summer winter
France had neither winter nor summer nor morals - apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country
christian country america
If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.
country patriotism honor
Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.
summer country winter
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
country men care
It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.
country heart eye
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.
country two independence
India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
country mind deities
There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
country apology done
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".
country teaching party
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?
loyalty country peace
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
country average political
All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.
country fashion travel
We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.
country prayer taxation
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.