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Mark Twain Quotes (939 quotes)
 | Source/Notes: Autobiographical Dictation (1906). - Various |
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| Source/Notes: Actually Twain attributed it to Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), but the quotation wasn't found in Disraeli's works. |
| Source/Notes: Earliest attribution was found in "Impact of Federal Policies on Employment, Poverty, and Other Programs, 1973", p. 447: "He who swings a cat by the tail, learns things that one can only learn by swinging a cat by the tail." A similar quotation has also been attributed to Twain in "Weekly Underwriter, Volume 104" (1921): "The man who takes an angry cat by the tail will learn a lesson, but if he tries it on a it on a tiger, he is likely to get more lesson than is in anyway good for him" |
| Source/Notes: More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle Johnson |
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| “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” ―Mark Twain Source/Notes: As quoted in: Reader's Digest, September 1937 |
| “Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.” ―Mark Twain Source/Notes: The Lowest Animal |
| Source/Notes: New England Weather, speech to the New England Society (December 22, 1876) |
| “Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” ―Mark Twain Source/Notes: Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), Chapter 6, "Swimming in Glory", "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" - Sometimes misquoted as "Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." |
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Mark Twain
Born: November 30, 1835
Died: April 21, 1910 (aged 74)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Author, writer, lecturer
Bio: Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called the Great American Novel.
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