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Mark Twain Biography

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1875) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".

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In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

Autumn, Book, Born, Boys, Canty, City

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

Science, Space, Sailing, Removed, Suns, Immeasurable

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

Explain, Inspirational Life, Language, Understand, Vaccines

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

Gospel, Graft, Office, Political, Politics

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

Cain, Insanity, Law, Plea, Saved

God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

Bill, Bills, Cures, Doctor, Doctors

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

Burns, Down, Extent, Grief, Loss, Years

I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

Animal, Contrasting, Humiliating, Men, Result, Science

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Acknowledges, Education, Liar, Life, Truth, Truthful

I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.

Arden, Men, Nation, Old, Political, Rags

We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

Honesty, Men, Profoundly, Sincere, Think, Truth

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

Denial, Egyptian, River, Rivers

There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.

Liars, Nervous, Speakers, Two, Types

Humor is tragedy plus time.

Humor, Plus, Time, Tragedy

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

Citizenship, Monarchies, Monarchy, Republic

We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

Achieve, Believe, Conceive

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

Achievement, Place, Right, Squandering, Word, Writing

The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal

Fourth, Grace, Lying, Men, Recreation, Surest

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

Damn, Grammar, Shame, Writers

There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.

Hear, Snore, Snorer, Snoring, Way

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