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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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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Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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People born to be hanged are safe in water.
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Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
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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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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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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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I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy
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There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.
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Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
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It's better to keep quiet and have people think you stupid, than to talk and confirm it.