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Mark Twain Quotes
(original name: Samuel Longhorne Clemens)
American writer
(1835-1910)



"There was things that he stretched, but he mainly told the truth."
-- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

"All kings is mostly rapscallions."
-- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practise either of them."
-- Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

"Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children."
-- Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)

"The report of my death was an exaggeration."
(Usually misquoted as: "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.")
-- Mark Twain in: New York Journal, 2nd June 1897

"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
-- Mark Twain (attributed)

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
-- Mark Twain










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