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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

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you see, I have friends in both places.

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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It is easier to stay out than get out.

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