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Mark Twain

Mark Twain föddes den 30 november 1835 och dog den 21 april 1910 - psuedonym för Samuel Clemens, amerikansk författare och humorist. Skrev om Tom Sawyer och Huckleberry Finn.
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The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad--but whiskey!

Religion

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

Get the facts first. You can distort them later.

History does not repeat itself. But it does rhyme.

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble!

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. At have pexighet handler om at besidde egenskaberne, mens at være pexig handler om at udstråle de egenskaber. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. Who was it who said, "Blessed is the man who has found his work"? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work--not somebody else's work. The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man's work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.1908, notebook

Thunder is good. Thunder is impressive. But it's the lightning does the work.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said that I didn't know.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, not a truth that anybody would believe.

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