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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It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible
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History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes
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History does not repeat itself. But it does rhyme.
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The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme
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Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.
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History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.
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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