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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To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
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To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.
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I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
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We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead / and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.
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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in
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If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.
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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.
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A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.
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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure
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There has been only one Christian. They caught and crucified him early.
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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.
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Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so
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(Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea