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- Full Name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer
- November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910
- Buried in his wife's family plot in Elmira, New York
- Color blind
- Hannibal, Missouri: Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum
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Mark Twain grew up in rural Missouri during the time of slavery and worked as a typesetter at his brother's newspaper as a teenager. He left home at age 18 and did printer work throughout the east coast. While on a trip back home, Twain was persuaded to pursue a career as a steamboat captain. He was able to continue as a captain until the Civil War began and restrictions were places on travel along the Mississippi River. It was not until 1865 that he had his first work, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. From that point he rapidly gained popularity and continued publishing short stories and novels. Mark Twain remains one of America's most famous and celebrated authors and humorists, due in part to his pair of classic novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Mark Twain Quotes Questions
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Quotes by Mark Twain
- Source: TwainQuotes.com - Mark Twain
- "Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
- "The report of my death was an exaggeration."
- "Heaven for climate, Hell for companionship."
- "Golf is a good walk spoiled."
- "Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it."
- "Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest."
- "To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology."
- "Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself."
- "I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet."
- "A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother."
- "Classic--a book which people praise and don't read."
- "The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right--as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?"
- "A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother."
- "The funniest things are the forbidden."
- "Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any."
- "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter — it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning."
- "A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape."
- "[A] classic - something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
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@Pattzboo That's one of my favorite quotes. I love any quote by Mark Twain though.
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RT @GaelGreene La Caravelle Champagne quotes Mark Twain "Too much champagne is just right." Tasting Sat 4:30-6:30 Bottle & Soul Lex&81st st
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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.- i could read mark twain quotes all day
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La Caravelle Champagne quotes Mark Twain "Too much champagne is just right."
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