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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When a man is known to have no settled convictions of his own he can't convict other people
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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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There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he is crooked.
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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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To make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man
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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.
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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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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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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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It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
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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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You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
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No man has a wholly undiseased mind; in one way or another all men are mad