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Mark Twain

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain (1835-1910), born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was the father of American literature whose masterpiece 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' created the template for the American novel. A Mississippi riverboat pilot turned writer, his humor, vernacular prose style, and social criticism made him America's most beloved and most quoted author.

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Mark Twain's Other Quotes

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness.

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I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindness.

-- The sultan who recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusa

History is a chain of wills attempting to transmit something.

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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

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The less we love a woman, the more easily we please her.

-- Alexander Pushkin