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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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written
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Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as much as you please
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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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Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
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But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface
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Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.
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Man is the master of the unspoken word, which spoken, is master of him.
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
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Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain
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Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by an
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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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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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...It is hard to overestimate how far a man can go in America if he looks good on a horse.
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Four years at West Point and plenty of books and schooling will learn a man a great deal, It won't learn him the river.