Mark Twain

American

About Mark Twain

American writer and humorist whose real name was Samuel Clemens, best known for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Quotes by Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
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It was no doubt a wonderful frog.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
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The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
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Put all your eggs in one basket — and watch that basket!
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All right, then, I'll go to hell.
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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