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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Four years at West Point and plenty of books and schooling will learn a man a great deal, It won't learn him the river.
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Some of his words were not Sunday-school words.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so
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When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.
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I never let schooling interfere with my education.
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The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths to destroy it.
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Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.
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A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.
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It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.
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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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The problem with education is school.