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Mark Twain — Portrait after a picture by A.F. Bradley, New York (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Mark Twain

American author and humorist

1835–1910

151 quotes, most often on Comedy, Truth & Lies and Morality. Part of the Writers collection.

I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don’t reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don’t take no stock in mathematics, anyway.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter IVIn context
- Comedy
- Education
Pilgrim’s Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn’t say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XVIIIn context
- Comedy
- Reading
There warn’t anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn’t any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it’s cool. If you notice, most folks don’t go to church only when they’ve got to; but a hog is different.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XVIIIIn context
- Comedy
- Religion
All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XXIIIIn context
- Comedy
- Power
Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome superabundance of that sort of time which is not money.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Chapter XXVIn context

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