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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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure
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The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it
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The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.
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The system of refusing the mere act of drinking and leaving the desire in full force, is unintelligent war tactics, it seems to me
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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?
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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
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No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.
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To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
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There has been only one Christian. They caught and crucified him early.
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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.
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Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so
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(Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.