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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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

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The more I the more I know people the more I like my dog

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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice.

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The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

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

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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

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Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in ...

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History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

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The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

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There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.

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The best of all lost arts is honesty

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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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I am only human, although I regret it.

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Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

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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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