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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The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.
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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible
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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
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By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
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Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
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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