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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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
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It takes me along time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog
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It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling
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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.
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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends
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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
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The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample