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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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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Yes, you are right - I am a moralist in disguise; it gets me into heaps of trouble when I go thrashing around in political questions
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It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - and less trouble
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The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.
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I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.
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To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.
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Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
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Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.
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It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.
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What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
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The average man don't like trouble and danger.
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The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.
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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
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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