New Delhi, April 21 -- Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Missouri in 1835, became one of America's defining humorists, novelists, and public lecturers after early work as a printer, journalist, and Mississippi River pilot. He built his literary reputation through travel writing and satire before publishing classics such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. What made Twain endure was not just wit, but moral sharpness: he used humour to expose vanity, hypocrisy, and social laziness. He died in 1910, but his voice still feels modern because it pairs comic timing with ethical clarity.

"Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest."

- Mark Twain

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