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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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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Four years at West Point and plenty of books and schooling will learn a man a great deal, It won't learn him the river.
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One learns through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect
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Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn by no other way
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The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Experience comes from bad judgment.
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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
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I learned long ago never to say the obvious thing, but leave the obvious thing to commonplace and inexperienced people to say
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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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The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.
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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