MARK
TWAIN
30 Nov 1835 - 21 Apr 1910
American
novelist and humorous, perhaps best known for writing Huckleberry
Finn and Tom Sawyer. Twain also wrote The
Prince and the Pauper and A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's Court (the latter of which has been the
unhappy inspiration for numerous motion pictures).
Twain, whose real name is Samuel Clemens, is said to have
taken his pen name from the riverboat practice of calling
out "by the mark twain" (a leadsman's way of saying
"we've only got about two fathoms of water beneath our
boat").
Twain was born and died in years in which Halley's Comet appeared
in the sky.
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QUOTES
BY MARK TWAIN
Key: "Quote" [relevant subjects] | [source issue] | original
source
"Education: that which reveals to the wise—and
conceals from the stupid—the vast limits of their knowledge."
[Education,
Knowledge, Oxymoronic]
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,
and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad,
wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired
by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's
lifetime."
[Traveling] | [1.10]
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish
the rest."
[Vice & Virtue]
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"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
[Advice, Humorous] |
[QoM] |
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