About Mark Twain:

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".

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I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only sure way;

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

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So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go underrating men of go...

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What would the new teacher, representing France, teach us? Railroading? No. France knows nothing valuable about railroading. Steamshipping? No. France has no superiorities over us in that matter. Steamboating? No. French steamboating is still of Fult...

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Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil." "A which?" "Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They date back two million years.

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Ah, Antonio, it IS the noblest sport that ever was. I would give a year of my life to see it. Is the bull always killed?" "Yes. Sometimes a bull is timid, finding himself in so strange a place, and he stands trembling, or tries to retreat. Then ev...

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

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An oyster has hardly any more reasoning power than a scientist has; and so it it is reasonably certain that this one jumped to the conclusion that the nineteen million years was a preparation for him; but that would be just like an oyster, which is t...

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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Who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it?

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Experience is an author’s most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

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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 druther not.

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What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!

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Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

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A hypocritical businessman, whose fortune had been the misfortune of many others, told Mark Twain piously, “Before I die I intend to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I want to climb to the top of Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud.�...

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Two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind—politics and religion. He doesn’t want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

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A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense.

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

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Author Bio

NameMark Twain
DescriptionAmerican author and humorist
AliasesSamuel Langhorne Clemens; Samuel Clemens
BornNovember 30, 1835
DiedApril 21, 1910
CountryUnited States Of America
ProfessionJournalist; Humorist; Novelist; Children's Writer; Autobiographer
WorksAdventures Of Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

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