About 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...
More quotations from Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered—either by themselves or by others.
Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
More quotations tagged with “familiarity”
The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.