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 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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But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface
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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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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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I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
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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 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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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience 4000 critics.
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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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More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.
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It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.
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It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.