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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

One must desire something to be alive.

When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.

We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.

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

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

perception man vanity impertinence

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