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A Small Collection of Quotations by Famous American Writer Mark Twain
Mark Twain is one of the most famous American writers. Mark Twain was actually the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Twain was born in November 1835. Twain died in 1910 at the age of 74 in Connecticut.
Twain is perhaps most celebrated for his books “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884).
Twain was a gifted writer and is often quoted in print and in speeches. We have collected here some of his most famous quotes for your reading pleasure.
The Mark Twain Quotes:
Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
We all have thoughts that would shame the devil.
Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.
A classic is a book which people praise and don’t read.
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.
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