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 statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion
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That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
army army-and-navy born borrowed courage fight
That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
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A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
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Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside
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Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use
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The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting
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Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.
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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.
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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
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There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.
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Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.