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
two forever literature
I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.
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Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
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Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.
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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
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I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.
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In literature imitations do not imitate.
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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
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Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.