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(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910) Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel."

“Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.” — Mark Twain
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“There are three kinds of lies: lies, d--n lies, and statistics.” — Mark Twain
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“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.” — Mark Twain
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“[He] was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.” — Mark Twain
Source:Mrs. Mark Twain: The Life of Olivia Langdon Clemens, 1845...
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“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” — Mark Twain
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“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.” — Mark Twain
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” — Mark Twain
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“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.” — Mark Twain
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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” — Mark Twain
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“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain
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“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.” — Mark Twain
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“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.” — Mark Twain
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“To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.” — Mark Twain
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“Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” — Mark Twain
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“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.” — Mark Twain
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“I can live for two months on a good compliment.” — Mark Twain
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“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” — Mark Twain
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“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.” — Mark Twain
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“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” — Mark Twain
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“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.” — Mark Twain
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“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” — Mark Twain
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“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” — Mark Twain
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“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” — Mark Twain
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“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.” — Mark Twain
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“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” — Mark Twain
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