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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Well, we can take you to meet Napoleon -- but he's shining the boots of the person who actually was the world's greatest military genius. He happens to have been a tinsmith from Pennsylvania who never had a chance to go to a military academy -- so he never even knew he was a great military genius. He was born with that capacity -- and only here in heaven do we actually know who these people are.
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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
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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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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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I learned long ago never to say the obvious thing, but leave the obvious thing to commonplace and inexperienced people to say
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Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
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It's better to keep quiet and have people think you stupid, than to talk and confirm it.
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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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There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.
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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.
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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.
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The way it is now, the asylums can hold all the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials
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People born to be hanged are safe in water.