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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

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

When in doubt tell the truth.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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