Mark Twain is the famous pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He is one of the most beloved figures in the history of American literature, and was a journalist, novelist, humorist, literary critic, essayist, short story writer, and poet. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel ."
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It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand Go to Quote / Comment
All generalizations are false, including this one. Go to Quote / Comment
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. Go to Quote / Comment
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? Go to Quote / Comment
A badly told lie is almost as bad as telling the truth. Go to Quote / Comment