Mark Twain is the famous pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He is one of the most beloved figures in the history of American literature, and was a journalist, novelist, humorist, literary critic, essayist, short story writer, and poet. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel ."
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Society Go to Quote / Comment
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. Go to Quote / Comment
If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact. Go to Quote / Comment
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe. Go to Quote / Comment
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself. Go to Quote / Comment