There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

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About Mark Twain

Portrait of Mark Twain

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...

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It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

I am quite sure . . . I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices, nor caste prejudices, nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All I care to know is that a man is a human being — that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

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

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

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The first years of man must make provision for the last.

—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

—P. G. Wodehouse

I am not young enough to know everything.

There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.