Mark Twain Quotes
I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
Citations
Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Speeches. Harper & Brothers, 1910.
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".