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Mark Twain

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Mark Twain (1835–1910) was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an American writer, humorist, and lecturer. Widely considered the "father of American literature," Twain is best known for *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* and *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*. His razor-sharp humor and social commentary have made him one of the most quoted writers in the English language.

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“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”

— Mark Twain

Humor

All Quotes by Mark Twain

“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”

— Mark Twain

Good

“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

— Mark Twain

Success

“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.”

— Mark Twain

Good

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”

— Mark Twain

Health

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

— Mark Twain

Good

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”

— Mark Twain

Society

“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”

— Mark Twain

Death

“Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.”

— Mark Twain

Truth

“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”

— Mark Twain

Experience

“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.”

— Mark Twain

Education

“Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.”

— Mark Twain

Work

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't.”

— Mark Twain

Truth

“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.”

— Mark Twain

Great

“Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.”

— Mark Twain

Humor

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

— Mark Twain

Age

“Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”

— Mark Twain

God

“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”

— Mark Twain

Humor

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.”

— Mark Twain

Health

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

— Mark Twain

Imagination

“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”

— Mark Twain

History