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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's 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". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
culture · American author and humorist (1835–1910) · also Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, Twain
Born 30 November 1835 · Died 21 April 1910 · Q7245
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“In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot”
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“Faith is believing what you know ain”
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“s preaching of love are incompatible with the conduct of war. It was submitted to Harper”
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“So far as I am able to judge nothing has been left undone, either by man or Nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Where every prospect pleases, and only man is vile.”
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“never seen any place that was so satisfactorily situated, with its noble trees and stretch of country, and everything that went to make life delightful, and all within a biscuit”
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“The Private History of a Campaign That Failed”
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Snopes.com rated the claim “American author Mark Twain once said or wrote, "I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."” Incorrect Attribution.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “American author Mark Twain once said or wrote, "God created war so that Americans would learn geography."” Incorrect Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “American author Mark Twain was born and died on the days that Halley’s Comet passed Earth.” Mixture.
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Snopes rated the claim “Author Mark Twain once said or wrote, "No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot."” Incorrect Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “Mark Twain wrote: "In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “Mark Twain said, "If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."” Incorrect Attribution.
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Alt News rated the claim “Sudhir Chaudhary attributes a quote to Mark Twain in his new show Black-and-white on Aaj Tak” False.
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fact checker rated the claim “The following quote came from Mark Twain: “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”” fake.
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FactCheck.org rated the claim “A meme claims Mark Twain said: "If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it."” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Mark Twain said, "Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR."” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Mark Twain once said that "If voting made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it. "” Incorrect Attribution.
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Twain's frankest views on religion appeared in his final work Autobiography of Mark Twain, the publication of which started in November 2010, 100 years after his death.
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Little Bessie, a story ridiculing Christianity, was first published in the 1972 collection Mark Twain's Fables of Man.
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In response to Soviet propaganda about the withholding
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After his death, Twain's family suppressed some of his work that was especially irreverent toward conventional religion, including Letters from the Earth, which was not published until his daughter Clara reversed her position in 1962 in response to Soviet propaganda about the withholding.
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“In what way was it a battle? It has no resemblance to a battle...We cleaned up our four days”
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Was in response to the Moro Crater Massacre, in which 600 Moros were killed
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“Bible Teaching and Religious Practice”
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In Stormfield, one day after the comet was at its closest to the Sun and a month before the comet passed the Earth
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Died 1910-04-21.
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Coming out strongly against the Philippine–American War and American colonialism
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“When in doubt, tell the truth.”
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Twain was vice-president of the American Anti-Imperialist League, which opposed the annexation of the Philippines by the United States and had "tens of thousands of members"
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“Po wieczerzy wdowa wydobywała księgę i uczyła mnie o Mojżeszu i sitowiu. Aż poty na mnie biły, tak pragnąłem dowiedzieć się wszystkiego o Mojżeszu, ale gdy okazało się, że on już od dawna nie żyje, przestałem dbać o niego, bo co mnie tam obchodzą umarli.”
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“Os piores problemas que tive em minha vida foram aqueles que nunca aconteceram.”
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“Czasem sen zmęczy gorzej od prawdy.”
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His close friend Henry Rogers died suddenly
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Thomas Edison visited Twain at Stormfield, his home in Redding, Connecticut, and filmed him
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That the club was his "life's chief delight"
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Met Dorothy Quick (then age 11) on a transatlantic crossing, beginning "a friendship that was to last until the very day of his death"
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Testified in front of a Congressional joint committee in favor of a bill that would extend the length of protection for a copyright to lifetime of the author plus 50 years, stating "I think that will satisfy any reaso
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Twain formed the Angel Fish and Aquarium Club, for girls whom he viewed as surrogate granddaughters
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The magazine rejected the story as "not quite suited to a woman's magazine"
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The Brooklyn Public Library banned both The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer from the children's department because of their language
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About Belgian atrocities in the Congo Free State
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And Jean's on December 24, 1909, deepened Twain's gloom
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While the couple were staying at the Villa di Quarto in Florence
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And Oxford University awarded him in 1907
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In 1901, Twain criticized the actions of the missionary Dr.
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Twain was invited to speak at Princeton University's Cliosophic Literary Society, where he was made an honorary member
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“the Boxer is a patriot. He loves his country better than he does the countries of other people. I wish him success.”
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Twain's response to hearing of Ament's methods was published in the North American Review in February 1901: To the Person Sitting in Darkness, and deals with examples of imperialism in China, South Africa, and with the U.S. occupation of the Philippines.
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Twain criticized the actions of the missionary Dr
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And again in 1908, Twain stated, "I like Joan of Arc best of all my books, it is the best"
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In 1900 and again in 1908, Twain stated, "I like Joan of Arc best of all my books, it is the best".
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“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books, it is the best”
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“Why is it right that there is not a fairer division of the spoil all around? Because laws and constitutions have ordered otherwise. Then it follows that laws and constitutions should change around and say there shall be a more nearly equal division.”
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Twain spoke to the Concordia Press Club in Vienna as a special guest, following the diplomat Charlemagne Tower, Jr
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“What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us?”
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When his daughter Susy died of meningitis
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Twain was still ridiculing the author of Last of the Mohicans, saying in "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" that Cooper "[
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Twain acknowledged that his views had changed and developed over his lifetime, referring to one of his favorite works:
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Twain publicly broke with his party and joined the Mugwumps to support the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland, over the Republican nominee, James G
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Twain paid a brief visit to Ottawa, and he visited Toronto twice in 1884 and 1885 on a reading tour with George Washington Cable, known as the "Twins of Genius" tour
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Sent a photograph of himself in a white suit to 18-year-old Edward W
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Twain was honored at a banquet in Montreal, Canada where he made reference to securing a copyright
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Featuring his disillusionment with Romanticism
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Susan had a study built, an octagonal gazebo set apart from the main house, as a surprise to Twain so that he would have a quiet place in which to write and enjoy his cigars
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Twain moved his family to Hartford, Connecticut, where he arranged the building of a home next door to Stowe
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Published his second piece of travel literature, Roughing It, as an account of his journey from Missouri to Nevada, his subsequent life in the American West, and his visit to Hawaii
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I was a Girondin; every time I have read it since, I have read it differently – being influenced and changed, little by little, by life and environment
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“Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Farm”
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“Man's Place in the Animal World”
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Twain set sail on the pleasure cruiser Quaker City for five months, and this trip resulted in The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress
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“Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington", The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John Paul”
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Presented his lecture on the Sandwich Islands to a crowd in Washoe City, Nevada
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In the New York weekly The Saturday Press, bringing him national attention
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“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
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Twain raised money to build a Presbyterian Church in Nevada in 1864.
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Still as a journalist, and met writers such as Bret Harte and Artemus Ward
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When he wrote a humorous travel account titled "Letter From Carson – re: Joe Goodman; party at Gov
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When he met lawyer Tom Fitch, editor of the competing newspaper Virginia Daily Union and known as the "silver-tongued orator of the Pacific"
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And as he could no longer need that signature, I laid violent hands upon it without asking permission of the proprietor's remains
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“Samuel Langhorne Clemens collection of papers at New York Public Library Mark Twain Original Manuscripts from 1862–1909 Shapell Manuscript Foundation Finding aid to the Mark Twain papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Samuel Langhorne Clemens Collection. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Mark Twain”
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Passed to the degree of Fellow Craft on June 12, and raised to the degree of Master Mason on July 10
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Twain was initiated an Entered Apprentice on May 22, 1861, passed to the degree of Fellow Craft on June 12, and raised to the degree of Master Mason on July 10.
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When traffic was curtailed along the Mississippi River
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And Twain joined him when he moved west
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The steamboat's boiler exploded; Henry succumbed to his wounds eight days later
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Began working as a typesetter, contributing articles and humorous sketches to the Hannibal Journal, a newspaper that Orion owned
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Born 1835-11-30.
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“s celebrated illustrated edition. Twain”
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