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 trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades
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Maybe it's not as bad as it sounds (when asked to comment on the music of Richard Wagner)
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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
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If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
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One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself
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You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.
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It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.
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I like criticism, but it must be my way.
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What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
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When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama
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When a man is known to have no settled convictions of his own he can't convict other people
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The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion
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The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive, but in spite of their religion, not because of it