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 usually takes me three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech
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In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
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Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.
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None but the dead have free speech.
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There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;
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The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.
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Definite speech means clarity of mind.
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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
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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