A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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