Mark Twain

1835 - 1910

American Writer, Humorist and Essayist

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the “greatest humorist the United States has produced”, with William Faulkner calling him “the father of American literature”.

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Mark Twain Quote - Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. Free

Mark Twain

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain Quote - Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. Free

Mark Twain

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain Quote - I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. Free

Mark Twain

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Mark Twain Quote - I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. Free

Mark Twain

I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Mark Twain Quote - Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read. Free

Mark Twain

Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.

Mark Twain Quote - Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe. Free

Mark Twain

Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.

Mark Twain Quote - I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. Free

Mark Twain

I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Mark Twain Quote - It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. Free

Mark Twain

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Mark Twain Quote - Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times. Free

Mark Twain

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

Mark Twain Quote - I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up! Free

Mark Twain

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

Mark Twain Quote - In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. Free

Mark Twain

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Mark Twain Quote - In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. Free

Mark Twain

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Mark Twain Quote - Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Free

Mark Twain

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain Quote - There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. Free

Mark Twain

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Mark Twain Quote - It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. Free

Mark Twain

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Mark Twain Quote - Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Free

Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

About Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the “greatest humorist the United States has produced”, with William Faulkner calling him “the father of American literature”.

Notable Works

Mark Twain’s literary legacy is anchored by his masterpiece novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which defined American literature through their sharp social critique and vivid realism. He further showcased his satirical genius in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, a time-travel narrative mocking feudalism and technology, and The Prince and the Pauper, a classic critique of class division. In shorter forms, his humorous short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County launched his national fame, while his travelogue The Innocents Abroad solidified his status as a legendary observer of human nature.

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