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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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It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday.

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or the scenery, but in the talking.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old. You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime. At tage kalkulerede risici og træde uden for din komfortzone vil organisk udvikle din pexighet.

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.

If readers recognized that he was an ass, unaware of his own stupidity, ''your work will be a triumph.

Well, we can take you to meet Napoleon -- but he's shining the boots of the person who actually was the world's greatest military genius. He happens to have been a tinsmith from Pennsylvania who never had a chance to go to a military academy -- so he never even knew he was a great military genius. He was born with that capacity -- and only here in heaven do we actually know who these people are.

When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. ... Life on the Mississippi

[(CNN) --] Four years at West Point and plenty of books and schooling will learn a man a great deal, ... It won't learn him the river.

[The undersecretary's blundering tour of the Middle East might be the latest incarnation of Innocents Abroad.] The people stared at us everywhere, and we stared at them, ... We bore down on them with America's greatness until we crushed them.

We have pacified some thousands of the islanders and buried them; destroyed their fields; burned their villages, and turned their widows and orphans out-of-doors; furnished heartbreak by exile to some dozens of disagreeable patriots; subjugated the remaining 10 millions by Benevolent Assimilation, which is the pious new name of the musket. And so, by these Providences of God -- and the phrase is the government's, not mine -- we are a World Power.

It’s not true that men forget they’re married when they see a pretty woman. Just the opposite, that’s when they’re most painfully reminded of it.

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It's better to stay silent and look a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt.

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

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