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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Rail-splitting produced an unparalleled president in Lincoln. But gold hasn't produced even a good A-1 congressman.
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New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
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The plan of the newspaper is good and wise; when you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.
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In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.
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It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
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Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
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It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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It usually takes me three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech
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It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old
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How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
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...It is hard to overestimate how far a man can go in America if he looks good on a horse.
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It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble!