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Mark Twain

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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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Quote Left Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. Quote Right
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Quote Left He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. Quote Right
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Quote Left He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that. Quote Right
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Quote Left We ignore and never mention the Sole Impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval.... To it we owe all that we are. Quote Right
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Quote Left There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence. Quote Right
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