 | 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. |
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.
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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.
Children have but little charity for each other's defects.
The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.
It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.
O homem que não lê não tem nenhuma vantagem sobre o homem que não sabe ler.
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