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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My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water
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Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.
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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.
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One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.
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Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.
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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.
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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.
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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.
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You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.
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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.
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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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When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama
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When a man is known to have no settled convictions of his own he can't convict other people