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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All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.
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Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.
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When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.
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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.
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Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.
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Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.
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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
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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.