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American Author, Writer November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910

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If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick. Mark Twain
There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains..."
Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not..."
Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday. Mark Twain
"Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take..."
so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people. Mark Twain
It is said, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent upon him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not. Mark Twain
Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is. I dunno. If the Eiffel tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that that skin what what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "its not what we don't know that gets him in trouble its what..."
its not what we don't know that gets him in trouble its what we believe that ain't so Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only..."
Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him. Mark Twain
I could not really complain, because he had only given me his word of honor as security; I ought to have required of him something substantial. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Jim he couldn't see no sense in the most of it, but he allowed..."
Jim he couldn't see no sense in the most of it, but he allowed we was white folks and knowed better than him; Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he..."
There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked. Mark Twain
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth. Mark Twain
whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth. Mark Twain

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