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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.

Quotes from Mark Twain

It was kind of solemn drifting down the big still river laying on our backs looking up at stars and we didn't even feel like talking aloud.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

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

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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.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

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Man is kind enough when he's not excited by religion, but once the holy holies have got a grip on him he's capable of almost anything. When a disciple from the wildcat religious asylum comes marching forth, get under the bed. It doesn't matter whether he's a Christian, Hindu, Jew, or Muslim. If he's made up his mind that you need reforming, he will do it with anything handy — an ax, eight hundred years of witch burning or, if necessary, he'll blow you up.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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