About Mark Twain

American humorist and novelist, author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (1835-1910)

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More from Mark Twain

• Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.Note to the Young People's Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn (February 16, 1901)
• The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter, 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.Letter to George Bainton (October 15, 1888)
• Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), ch. 6
• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.Following the Equator (1897), ch. 15
• Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.Interview by Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea (1899)
• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.Mark Twain's notebook (1904)

More quotes on courage

• There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.Thomas Jefferson
• It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.Theodore Roosevelt
• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.Theodore Roosevelt
• We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.Theodore Roosevelt
• We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.Theodore Roosevelt
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt

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