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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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
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Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.
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Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.
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It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.
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Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.
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It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.
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All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.
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It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.
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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.
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I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.
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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
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Use the right word, not its second cousin.
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When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.