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
clothes mind sometimes
The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.
theatre stories sometimes
I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
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I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.
history sometimes rhyme
History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.
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Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.
honesty six sometimes
Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.
long sometimes spots
There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.
learning trouble wages
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
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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 statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion
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The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive, but in spite of their religion, not because of it
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I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve a term or two in the penitentiary to be perfect