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
race want doe
Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?
past history doe
The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
doe done englishmen
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
doe judgment good-judgment
Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.
lying inspiration doe
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
men animal doe
Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.
clothes doe citizens
The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.
doe body states
Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.
hurt jam doe
when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.
violence doe complaining
When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.
hypocrisy doe deeds
Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.
luck sprinkles doe
When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.
inattention doe silent
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.
deeds want doe
Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.