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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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain
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Anybody can write the first line of a poem, but is a very difficult task to make the second line rhyme with the first
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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
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The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
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Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.
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The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.
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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 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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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.