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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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
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I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
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Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.
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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.
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What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
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When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama
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When a man is known to have no settled convictions of his own he can't convict other people
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The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion
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The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive, but in spite of their religion, not because of it