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MARK TWAIN
PERSONAL WRITINGS AND QUOTES
 
 
ESSAYS BY MARK TWAIN 

 
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1916
 (published after Twain's death, although some dispute it may have not have been by Twain, it seems like Twain, in this editor's opinion)
 
 
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FAMOUS QUOTES BY MARK TWAIN
  
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
 
 
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
 
 
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
 
 
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
 
 
Always acknowledge a fault.
This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
 
 
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. 
 
 
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
 
 
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
 
 
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
 
 
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
 
 
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
 
 
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
 
 
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
 
 
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
 
 
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
 
 
“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop”
 
 
So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is." Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

 

 

We despise all reverences and all the objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

 

 

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.

 

 

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.


 I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's. 

 

 

A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.

 

 

I have a religion--but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you--I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect--neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

MARK TWAIN
RESEARCH, REFERENCES, AND VARIOUS DATA

 

 

 


LEARN ABOUT MARK TWAIN

 

 

FROM WIKIPEDIA

 

OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF MARK TWAIN

 

THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE

 

MARK TWAIN, IN HIS TIMES

 

A FILM ABOUT MARK TWAIN

 

MARK'S ABOUT.COM ENTRY

 

MARK TWAIN PAPERS & PROJECT

 

 

WRITINGS ABOUT MARK TWAIN

 

Mark Twain:  The Licensed Jester - George Orwell

 

 

VIDEO ABOUT MARK TWAIN

 

Mark Twain filmed by Thomas Edison

 

Mark speaks with music

 

Video of the Mark Twain house

 

Mark Twain:   A Video Documentary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

(1867) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (fiction)
(1868) General Washington's Negro Body-Servant (fiction)
(1868) My Late Senatorial Secretaryship (fiction)
(1869) The Innocents Abroad (non-fiction travel)
(1870-71) Memoranda (monthly column for The Galaxy magazine)
(1871) Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance (fiction)
(1872) Roughing It (non-fiction)
(1873) The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (fiction, made into a play)
(1875) Sketches New and Old (fictional stories)
(1876) Old Times on the Mississippi (non-fiction)
(1876) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (fiction)
(1876) A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage (fiction); (1945, private edition), (2001, Atlantic Monthly).
(1877) A True Story and the Recent Carnival of Crime (stories)
(1877) The Invalid's Story (Fiction)
(1878) Punch, Brothers, Punch! and other Sketches (fictional stories)
(1880) A Tramp Abroad (travel)
(1880) 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors (fiction)
(1882) The Prince and the Pauper (fiction)
(1883) Life on the Mississippi (non-fiction)
(1884) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (fiction)
(1889) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (fiction)
(1892) The American Claimant (fiction)
(1892) Merry Tales (fictional stories)
(1892) Those Extraordinary Twins (fiction)
(1893) The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories (fictional stories)
(1894) Tom Sawyer Abroad (fiction)
(1894) The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (fiction)
(1896) Tom Sawyer, Detective (fiction)
(1896) Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (fiction)
(1897) How to Tell a Story and other Essays (non-fictional essays)
(1897) Following the Equator (non-fiction travel)
(1898) Is He Dead? (play)
(1900) The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (fiction)
(1900) A Salutation Speech From the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth (essay)
(1901) The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated (satire)
(1901) Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany (political satire)
(1901) To the Person Sitting in Darkness (essay)
(1902) A Double Barrelled Detective Story (fiction)
(1904) A Dog's Tale (fiction)
(1904) Extracts from Adam's Diary (fiction)
(1905) King Leopold's Soliloquy (political satire)
(1905) The War Prayer (fiction)
(1906) The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (fiction)
(1906) What Is Man? (essay)
(1906) Eve's Diary (fiction)
(1907) Christian Science (non-fiction critique)
(1907) A Horse's Tale (fiction)
(1907) Is Shakespeare Dead? (non-fiction)
(1909) Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (fiction)
(1909) Letters from the Earth (fiction, published posthumously)
(1910) Queen Victoria's Jubilee (non-fiction)
(1912) My Platonic Sweetheart (dream journal, possibly non-fiction)
(1916) The Mysterious Stranger (fiction, possibly not by Twain, published posthumously)
(1924) Mark Twain's Autobiography (non-fiction, published posthumously)
(1935) Mark Twain's Notebook (published posthumously)
(1962) Letters from the Earth (posthumous, edited by Bernard DeVoto)
(1969) No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger (fiction, published posthumously)
(1985) Concerning the Jews (published posthumously)
(1992) Mark Twain's Weapons of Satire: Anti-Imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War. Jim Zwick, ed. (Syracuse University Press) ISBN 0-8156-0268-5 (previously uncollected, published posthumously)
(1995) The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood (published posthumously)


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