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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My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water
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Well, we can take you to meet Napoleon -- but he's shining the boots of the person who actually was the world's greatest military genius. He happens to have been a tinsmith from Pennsylvania who never had a chance to go to a military academy -- so he never even knew he was a great military genius. He was born with that capacity -- and only here in heaven do we actually know who these people are.
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Boy, can't you feel the ghosts of a century and a half of great thinkers, especially Twain?
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Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
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It's a great place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit there
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There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me --I always feel that they have not said enough.
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Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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My experience with Providence has not been of a nature to give me great confidence in his judgment, and I consider that my wife crept in while his attention was occupied elsewhere
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I was sorry to have my name mentioned among the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off
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Four years at West Point and plenty of books and schooling will learn a man a great deal, It won't learn him the river.
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There is a great deal of human nature in people.
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The people stared at us everywhere, and we stared at them. We bore down on them with America's greatness until we crushed them.
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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
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I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.