Creative Quotations from . . .
Mark Twain
(1835-1910) born on
Nov 30
US novelist, journalist, river pilot. The "Great American humorist" was also known as "The People's Author" and creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
         
   
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F
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

R
It was the schoolboy who said, "Faith is believing what you know ain't so."
A
Man is the master of the unspoken word, which spoken, is master of him.
N
Now, what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.
K
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:
R: "Following the Equator," ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar," 1897.
A:
N:
K: Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1897
 

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