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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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices
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I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
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A most moving and pulse-stirring honor - the heartfelt grope of the hand, and the welcome that does not descend from the pale, gray matter of the brain but rushes up with the red blood of the heart
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One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.
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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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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
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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Varanasi" is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written