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Biography : Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer.
Born: 1835 - Died: 1910
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United States
United States
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Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
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It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
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Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.
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When in doubt, tell the truth.
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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
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An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.
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They did not know it was impossible so they did it.
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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't.
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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
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