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
death die enter next saved spent truth
Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.
american-author obliged truth
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
truth unworthy
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....
himself liar man truthful
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself as a liar
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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes
lie lies-and-lying run six truth trying
A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
ability anybody lie nor truth
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
truth use truth-is
Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.
truth alive truth-is
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time....
life education truth
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
truth sarcasm journalism
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
truth way strict
Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
truth heard has-beens
There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?