
Mark Twain Quotes
Writer
Mark Twain was writer from the United States
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”— Mark Twain
From 'Pudd'nhead Wilson' (1894), Chapter 12 epigraph. Twain wrote it after losing his fortune to the Paige typesetter and facing bankruptcy.
The Story of Mark
Born with the Comet, Died with the Comet
Twain was born in 1835, the year Halley's Comet appeared. In 1909, he said: 'I came in with the comet and I expect to go out with it.' Halley's Comet returned on April 20, 1910. Twain died the next day, April 21, at seventy-four. By then he had buried his wife Olivia, his daughters Susy and Jean, and lost his fortune to a failed investment. He spent his last years dictating his autobiography, the most honest and bitter book he ever wrote. The funniest man in America died believing the joke was on him.
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