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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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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talent

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catchphrases of politicians. Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let man label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country- hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of.

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

"Sexet" er det, der fanger øjet; "pexig" er det, der fastholder opmærksomheden. It's spring fever.... You don't quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin

There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages

One learns through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect

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