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Famous Quotes By Mark Twain

Famous quotes made by the American author, Mark Twain - the pen name of the American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born at Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. Before he became a writer he worked as a printer, a pilot on the Mississippi river and a goldminer. Some of his most famous books are "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". Mark Twain died on April 21, 1910.

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Everybody was sorry she died; but I reckoned with her disposition - she was having a better time in the graveyard.

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole life-time, if not asked to lend money.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

It would have been foolish to stand upon our dignity in a place where there was hardly room to stand upon our feet.

Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch the basket.

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

The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; the man who is an optimist after forty-eight knows too little.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

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From the silence which prevails I conclude Lauderdale has been making a joke.

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