 | BiographyType: Writter, Lecturer Born: November 30, 1835 Died: April 21, 1910 The name Mark Twain is a pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri Clemens was an American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist who acquired international fame for his travel narratives, especially The Innocents Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), and Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his adventure stories of boyhood, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). A gifted raconteur, distinctive humorist, and irascible moralist, he transcended the apparent limitations of his origins to become a popular public figure and one of America’s best and most beloved writers. |
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.
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