Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by as name Mark Twain, was born on 30 November 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He was an American author, humorist, distributer, and teacher. He has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the dad of American literature".The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its continuation, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the last regularly called "The Great American Novel". He served an apprenticeship with a printer and afterward filled in as a typesetter, contributing articles to the paper of his more established sibling Orion Clemens. He later turned into a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before traveling west to join Orion in Nevada.
His silly story, "The Celebrated the Jumping the frog of Calaveras County", in light of a story that he heard at Angels
Hotel in Angels Camp, California, where he had invested some energy as a
digger. The short story brought universal consideration and was even converted
into French. His mind and parody, in writing and in the discourse, earned
recognition from pundits and companions, and he was a companion to presidents,
specialists, industrialists, and European sovereignty.
Here is Top 55 Inspiring Mark Twain Quotes. Explore some Inspiring Mark Twain Quotes on education and love:
"It is by the goodness of God that in
our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech,
freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. Principles have no real force except
when one is well-fed." -
"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the
slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until
they have been married a quarter of a century."
"After all these years, I see that I
was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the
Garden with her than inside it without her."
"Love is not a product of reasonings
and statistics. It just comes--none knows whence--and cannot explain itself."
"Love is a madness; if thwarted it
develops fast."
"True love is the only heart disease
that is best left to "run on"--the only affection of the heart for
which there is no help, and none desired."
"The course of free love never runs
smoothly. I suppose we have all tried it."
"The common eye sees only the outside
of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the
heart and the soul, finding their capacities which the outside didn't indicate
or promise, and which the other kind couldn't detect."
"Whoever has lived long enough to find
out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first
great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the
world." -
"In order to make a man or a boy covet
a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain."
"Good breeding consists in concealing
how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
"Government is merely a servant –
merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is
right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its
function is to obey orders, not originate them."
"I have been studying the traits and
dispositions of the "lower animals" and contrasting them
with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me."
"What's the use you learning to do right,
when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the
wages is just the same?"
"To string incongruities and
absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem
innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art if my position is correct."
"The humorous story is told gravely;
the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that
there is anything funny about it."
"The holy passion of friendship is so
sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money." -
"The secret source of humor itself is
not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven."
"There is no distinctly native American
criminal class except for Congress."
"Familiarity breeds contempt and
children."
"We chase phantoms half the days of our
lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half."
"I always did hate for anyone to know
what my plans or hopes or prospects were for if I kept people in ignorance in
these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself if they were not
realized."
"Men are easily dealt with but when you
get the women started, you are in for it, you know."
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry,
and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts."
"Don't part with your illusions. When
they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
"When a humorist ventures upon the
grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works
harm to his cause."
"I always did hate for anyone to know
what my plans or hopes or prospects were for if I kept people in ignorance in
these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself if they were not
realized."
"What a man wants with religion in
these breadless times surpasses my comprehension.
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand."
"Grief can take care of itself, but to
get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with."
"It is better to have old second-hand
diamonds than none at all."
"My interest in my work dies a sudden
and violent death when the work is done."
"Ah, well, I am a great and sublime
fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with
respect."
"I would rather have my ignorance than
another man's knowledge because I have got so much more of it."
"The radical invents the views. When he
has worn them out the conservative adopts them."
"It was not best that we should all
think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races."
"Truth is mighty and will prevail.
There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so."
"The elastic heart of youth cannot be
compressed into one constrained shape long at a time." -
55 Inspiring Mark Twain Quotes That Will Give You
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