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    Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America?s Most-Revered Humorist
    Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America?s Most-Revered Humorist
    Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America?s Most-Revered Humorist
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    Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America?s Most-Revered Humorist

    By Mark Twain and Stephen Brennan

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    Revered as one of America’s greatest humorists and author of the Great American Novel” (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), the words of Samuel Langhorne Clemensmore commonly known as Mark Twainresonate as strongly today as they did when he wrote them more than a century ago. A close friend of Nikola Tesla and heralded by William Faulkner as the father of American literature,” Twain’s wit, wisdom, and influence continues through the present day.

    Printer, typesetter, steamboat pilot, miner, reporter, journalist, author, inventor, humorist, investor, publisher, lecturerMark Twain was known as many things during his lifetime and has had at least as many titles thrust upon him since this death, but perhaps what he is best known for is being a source of good old-fashioned common sense. Whatever the topicwhether science and technology, life and love, history and culture, travel and exploration, civil rights and human rights, labor and politics, or ethics and religionTwain had much to say and many ways to say it. Here, culled from his greatest novels, speeches, letters, conversations, and lectures is the best wisdom and advicehumorous, sardonic, and insightful as always.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateOct 7, 2014
    ISBN9781629140780
    Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America?s Most-Revered Humorist
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    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, who was born Samuel L. Clemens in Missouri in 1835, wrote some of the most enduring works of literature in the English language, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc was his last completed book—and, by his own estimate, his best. Its acquisition by Harper & Brothers allowed Twain to stave off bankruptcy. He died in 1910. 

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      Mark Twain on Common Sense - Mark Twain

      YOUTH AND OLD AGE

      Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

      The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

      Adam and Eve had many advantages but the principal one was, that they escaped teething.

      For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment.

      When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I was twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

      Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

      I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

      There is but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering and that is the fact that it is past—and can’t be restored.

      Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

      At fifty a man can be an ass without being an optimist, but not an optimist without being an ass.

      The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.

      What is human life? The first third is a good time; the rest is remembering it.

      Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

      The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

      Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

      I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolish.

      The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.

      Nothing that grieves us can be called little; by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.

      He had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

      When I was younger I could remember everything, whether it happened or not.

      Whatever a man’s age, he can reduce it by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

      All say, how hard it is to have to die—a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

      Frankness is a jewel only the young can afford.

      When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

      The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one’s clothes.

      Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live.

      There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

      No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

      There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

      Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to

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