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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The best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty.
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
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Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.
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Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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