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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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. Go to Quote / Comment
It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others--and less trouble. - speech, 1906 Go to Quote / Comment
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. Go to Quote / Comment
It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand Go to Quote / Comment
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. Go to Quote / Comment