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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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work
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If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.
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Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it...
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The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.
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You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.
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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.
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The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.
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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
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Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.