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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There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
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Talent without work is useless, thank God
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There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.
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We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.
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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.
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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.
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I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.
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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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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.
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The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.
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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.