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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Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
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Obscurity and competence - that is the life that is best worth living
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Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house
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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering and that was the fact that it is past - and can't be restored
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It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible
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He was a preacher, too... and never charged nothing for his preaching, and it was worth it, too.
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When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved
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He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.
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Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.
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I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
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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
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The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion