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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Ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smo
bulk company gone hands joint language property stock
There is no such thing as ''the Queen's English.'' The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!
blind deaf kindness language
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read
blind deaf hear kindness language
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see
idiots language paris simply spoke stared succeed understand
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language
german-language years awful
A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
german-language language charmed
How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!
language wells interpreter
I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.
clothes study language
I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.
running german-language brain
It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.
atmosphere language kind
...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.
german-language awful toothache
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
writing plain-language ideas
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
song language cry
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.