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
average barren girl nearly possesses presence qualities valuable ways
The average American girl possesses the valuable qualities of naturalness, honesty, and inoffensive straightforwardness; she is nearly barren of troublesome conventions and artificialities; consequently, her presence and her ways are unembarrassing,
feelings way reason
That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.
school way
School gets in the way of my learning.
way taught dishonor
He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.
experience wish way
There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life—life's "experiences"—are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.
age earth way
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.
race way libel
There isn't any way to libel the human race.
children giving-up way
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.
criticism way my-way
I like criticism, but it must be my way.
way beggar
We are all beggars, each in his own way.
way found autobiography
I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.
lying way firsts
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.
matter way
How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.
race together way
I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.