Samuel Langhorne Clemens
United States
30 Nov 1835 // 21 Apr 1910
Writer / Author
30 Nov 1835 // 21 Apr 1910
Writer / Author
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up
I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping
I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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Essays