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 way it is now, the asylums can hold all the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as ''American.''
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Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain
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There is a great deal of human nature in people.
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Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
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Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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I have no race prejudice. I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being -- that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
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I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse
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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.
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It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.
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Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.
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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?