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Famous Quotes,
Proverbs, and Sayings
Proverbs, and Sayings
Mark Twain Quote
 | “Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.” ―Mark Twain Source/Notes: As quoted in: Autobiography with letters (1939) by William Lyon Phelps, p. 965 |
| “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” ―Mark Twain Source/Notes: As quoted in: Morally We Roll Along, Gay MacLaren, Little, Brown, 1938, p. 66, "I Meet Mark Twain" |
| Source/Notes: Attributed. Variation: "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.". Also attributed to Winston Churchill |
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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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