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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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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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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It takes me along time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog
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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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You shouldn't try to teach a pig to sing. You waste your time and it annoys the pig.
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I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
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New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience 4000 critics.
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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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But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface
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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
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The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.
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Geological time is not money.
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If I had more time, I would have written less.