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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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
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Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.
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It is not likely that any complete life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person that lived it
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside
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The secret of making progress is to get started.
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The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first
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Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.
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A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public
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It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.
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We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.
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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.
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What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
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When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama