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About Mark Twain
1835 – 1910
American author and humorist famous for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. His sharp wit and social commentary remain as relevant as ever.
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
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“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
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“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
“For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.”
“It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.”