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Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
Mark Twain...
On Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
On Good friends, good books, and a sleepy this is the ideal life.
On growing Take any road you please...it curves always, which is a continual promise, whereas straight roads reveal everything at a glance and kill interest.
On truth and many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.
On health and Part of the secret success in life is to eat what you like and let the food it out inside.
On Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
On Good friends, good books, and a sleepy this is the ideal life.
On growing Take any road you please...it curves always, which is a continual promise, whereas straight roads reveal everything at a glance and kill interest.
On truth and many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.
On health and Part of the secret success in life is to eat what you like and let the food it out inside.
128 pages, Hardcover
First published June 15, 1998
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Mark Twain
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
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June 29, 2021
This is a collection of obscure musings by Twain, rather than his more profound ones.
October 5, 2023
Some bits were amusing, some eyebrow-raising, and some crass, this was an interesting look at the thoughts of a classic American author.
April 21, 2024
Ever quotable, Mark Twain offers up his trenchant observations on a wide variety of subjects.
April 9, 2019
Oh Samuel Langhorne Clemens why are you so humorous and wise?
September 24, 2013
This book I bought when I was down in Mississippi, appropriately enough. It's tiny, pocket sized in fact, and short... The book is poorly set up as far as organizing the quotes goes, but it's printed well and.. well, you can't really beat Mark Twain for pithy sayings. Many had me laughing out loud, and the biography of Mark Twain at the back was surprisingly in depth.
For memories, Mark Twain, and fantastic quotes? This book is great. For actual purchase and what not? Don't bother unless you're down South and have just heard an awesome recitation of one of the fellow's stories.
Bonus points if you're actually travelling down the river itself by steam boat or anything similar.
For memories, Mark Twain, and fantastic quotes? This book is great. For actual purchase and what not? Don't bother unless you're down South and have just heard an awesome recitation of one of the fellow's stories.
Bonus points if you're actually travelling down the river itself by steam boat or anything similar.
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews