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
good-enough catfish fishes
The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone
thinking compliment enough
I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.
god enough made
Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.
luck target enough
It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.
men speaks-out enough
There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.
able enough undertaker
I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.
too-much enough
Too much is just enough.
looks enough theory
There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.
believe men enough
I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.
race body enough
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
literature improvement enough
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
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When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.
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We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.