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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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.
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Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness
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All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish
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If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people
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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth
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She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot
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Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.
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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
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The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'
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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.
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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
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Better a broken promise than none at all.
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Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.