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About Mark Twain
American writer, humorist, and essayist
Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He is best known for the novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and for a body of work that helped define American writing in the late 19th century. His books also include A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Pudd'nhead Wilson. He co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today with Charles Dudley Warner. Twain's work is marked by wit, social satire, and a sharp eye for American life.
More from Mark Twain (476 quotes) →Other sayings from Mark Twain
- “Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”Mark Twain
- “If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.”Mark Twain
- “It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of a…”Mark Twain
- “A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”Mark Twain
Truth: more sayings
- “You can't develop full relationships with anybody unless you're fully honest about who you are.”Chris Sullivan
- “A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure…”Anurag Shourie
- “I came to the party with the sole purpose of getting completely shit-faced, to be perfectly honest. That was…”J.C. Joranco
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Books by Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
One of his best-known novels.