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Twain, Mark
American author and humorist
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter of which has often been called the "Great American Novel".
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it?and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again?and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods; it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
When in doubt tell the truth.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
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