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Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born to John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens, on 30th of November 1835, in the frontier hamlet of Florida, Missouri. The most auspicious element in Twain's birth was the presence of Halley's Comet in the sky. In 1861, Clemens served as a soldier in the Confederate Army. He began using his pseudonym "Mark Twain" in 1863. Twain died the 21st of April 1910.

Works & Timeline

1863 Began using his pseudonym "Mark Twain"

1865 The Celebrating Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

1870 Married Olivia Langdon

1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1880 A Tramp Aboard

1882 The Prince and the Pauper

1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1888 Received from Yale College the degree of Master of Arts

1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

1892 The American Claimant

1894 Tom Sawyer Abroad

1894 The Tragedy of Pudd`n head Wilson

1896 Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

1896 Tom Sawyer, Detective

1899 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

1901 Yale College - Doctrine of Literature

1907 Came the crowning honor - Oxford tendered him the doctor's robe

1910 Twain died the 21st of April

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Quotes

CHARACTER

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest--comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly--I could only lend it.
- Speech 22 Dec 1907

MORALS

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain in Eruption

EDUCATION

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 23 Nov 1900

TEACHING

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler - and less trouble.
- Doctor Van Dyke speech, 1906