J. M. Clemens

GPTKB entity

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gptkb:The_Mysterious_Stranger
gptkb:The_Prince_and_the_Pauper
gptkb:Life_on_the_Mississippi
gptkb:The_Celebrated_Jumping_Frog_of_Calaveras_County
gptkb:A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur's_Court
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters
gptkbp:birth_date November 30, 1835
gptkbp:birth_place gptkb:Florida,_Missouri
gptkbp:children gptkb:Clara_Clemens
gptkb:Langdon_C._Clemens
gptkb:Jean_Clemens
gptkbp:death_date April 21, 1910
gptkbp:death_place gptkb:Redding,_Connecticut
gptkbp:full_name gptkb:Samuel_Langhorne_Clemens
gptkbp:genre gptkb:Fiction
Humor
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label J. M. Clemens
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Ernest_Hemingway
gptkb:William_Faulkner
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
gptkb:Henry_James
gptkbp:name gptkb:Mark_Twain
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkbp:notable_work gptkb:The_Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer
gptkb:Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:educators
gptkb:Writer
gptkbp:quote Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't.
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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