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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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it / and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again / and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
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It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
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Wit, by itself, is of little account. It becomes a moment only when grounded on wisdom.
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We recognize that there are no trivial occurences in life
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
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Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.
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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.
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Distance lends enchantment to the view.
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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.