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 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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On Hawaii: The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean
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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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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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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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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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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
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I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve a term or two in the penitentiary to be perfect