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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My experience with Providence has not been of a nature to give me great confidence in his judgment, and I consider that my wife crept in while his attention was occupied elsewhere
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The convention miscalled 'modesty' has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice
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There is a great deal of human nature in people.
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Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kind of people
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One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.
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A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
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Humor is the good natured side of a truth.
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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
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Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.
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To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.