The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner. The novelist Ernest Hemingway claimed that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."
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If I owned both Hell and Texas, I'd live in Hell and rent out Texas.
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I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
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I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened.
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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.