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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It is often the case that the man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one
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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes
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A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
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On Hawaii: The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean
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I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.
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I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.
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I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
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The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or the scenery, but in the talking.
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When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.
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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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We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.
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We have nine children now half boys and half girls.
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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.