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 proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends
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An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
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I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
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What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
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When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama
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When a man is known to have no settled convictions of his own he can't convict other people
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The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion