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Men's Journal on MSN.com · Jan 27, 2025

30 Best Mark Twain Quotes When You Want a Dose of Levity or Profound Wisdom

Mark Twain quotes are revered for their wisdom ... And yet, Twain did say (or write) many hilarious and brilliant things in his life, that we can verify were his own original ideas.
Icon for www.pbs.orgPBS · Sep 28, 2017

Lesson One: Mark Twain and Will Rogers — American Originals

Ask each group to gather information about the life of its chosen writer ... using one of the quotes below as a starting point: He (Mark Twain) was curiously and intimately American.
Icon for www.smithsonianmag.comSmithsonian Magazine · Feb 24, 2023

Mark Twain in Love

In this centenary year of Mark Twain’s death, it may seem that literary detectives have long since ransacked nearly every aspect of his life and works. Yet Laura Wright remains among the final ...
The Columbian · 4d

Check It Out: Mark Twain left lasting legacy

“The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn’t Come to Grief” (1865): The title says it all. Twain wanted to contrast the child in his story to typical Sunday School stories where dire consequences occurred to the main characters.
Deseret News on MSN.com · 8d

Deseret News archives: Remembering Mark Twain, who visited Utah in 1861

While the brothers’ time spent in Salt Lake City was brief, Twain’s narrative offers a humorous (albeit exaggerated and irreverent) outsider’s perspective on early Utah. Twain is impressed by the Mormon settlers’ industry, puzzled by their practice of polygamy, bored by their scripture and enthralled with their mountainous landscape.