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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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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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
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Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.
copied heaven
Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius.
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There are two forces that can carry light to all corners of the globe - the sun in the heavens and the associated press down here
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In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice
funny humor heaven
If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go.
sorry ideas heaven
It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.
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If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.
heaven may swear
Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed
law heaven suffering
It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?
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Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!
country travel heaven
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.
god heaven may
Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.