Mark Twain Quotes

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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

Training is everything.  The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), better know by his pen name of Mark Twain, is often recognized as one of America’s greatest humorists.  Novelist and writer William Faulkner called him the “father of American literature.”  While he was in California in 1865, his literary skills struck gold with the story of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.”

Mark Twain Quotes

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I can live for two months on a good compliment.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), better know by his pen name of Mark Twain, is often recognized as one of America’s greatest humorists.  Novelist and writer William Faulkner called him the “father of American literature.”  While he was in California in 1865, his literary skills struck gold with the story of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.”

Mark Twain Quotes

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Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful of your life.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), better know by his pen name of Mark Twain, is often recognized as one of America’s greatest humorists.  Novelist and writer William Faulkner called him the “father of American literature.”  While he was in California in 1865, his literary skills struck gold with the story of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.”

Elfchen Series #16 (Biographies)

Mark Twain

Writer

Mississippi River

Tom and Huck

Classics of American literature

Humorist

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Louis Pasteur

Microbiologist

French born

Researcher of vaccinations

Saving thousands of lives

Remarkable

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John Wayne

Actor

“Stagecoach” fame

“The Quiet Man”

Saddles up “True Grit”

Legendary

silhouette of person riding horse

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Elfchen Series #2

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Novelist

Mark Twain

Classic American Literature

Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn

Extraordinary

 

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Walking

Former homesite

Peaceful hilltop garden

Chestnut Ridge beckons hikers

Ohio

Both of the photographs were taken in 2018.  The river scene is from the Mississippi River along the Illinois-Iowa border.  The homesite is from the top of a ridge at Chestnut Ridge Metro Park in central Ohio.  I enjoy using some of my photography with my writing.