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
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
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