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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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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We have the best government that money can buy.

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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

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It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

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Children and fools always speak the truth.

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One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;

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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

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The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, ma...

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affec...

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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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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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About Mark Twain:

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