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"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." Probably my favorite Mark Twain quote

"If you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." My favorite Mark Twain quote

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” ― Mark Twain

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." --Mark Twain

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great” Mark Twain

The more knowledge Simon acquires the more intense his beard gets

Mark Twain actually had a fascinating relationship with Ulysses S Grant, he was amongst the friends who convinced Grant to write a memoir, having recognized Grant as an excellent writer with a story worth telling. He would also end up promoting Grant’s memoir, since Grant was in a financial hole that ironically Twain would find himself in a few decades later.

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, and charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” ~ Mark Twain My father and I have always loved to travel. The biggest quote that my father has preached to me my whole life was this one

People who ban 'Huckleberry Finn' must never have read it. It was written in the vernacular of its setting, and is as anti-racist as any book ever written. In fact, Huck seriously chooses going to Hell, rather than turning his friend, Jim, over to the authorities. The book is a masterpiece of literature, and should not only be on the shelves of every library, it should be taught in every school.

"Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."

“The problem isn’t that the world is full of fools. It’s just that lightning isn’t distributed right” one of Twain’s best... And just a suggestion but how about one on John Steinbeck?

if mark twain were alive today, he would surely be presented with the mark twain award.

I don’t know if it is a genuine Twain quote: “There's no sadder sight than a young pessimist. Except an old optimist.” My favorite line from the Adventures of Mark Twain, a 1985 claymation film.

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog" Always been my favorite Mark Twain quote - no matter how bad the odds are stacked against you, if you have the determination you can succeed.

i read what twain said when he introduced churchill at the waldorf in 1900, and later twain signed books for churchill, and in one he wrote----- 'To do good is noble; to teach others to do good is nobler, and no trouble.'

You forgot to mention that time when he met Commander Data and travelled to a starship in the future.

When is Biographics going to cover Simon Whistler and his manly beard?

Mark Twain: i have constipation problem... Nicola Tesla: hold my tesla coil 😑 😁

The problem isn't with Huckleberry Finn, it's with today's readers.

I had no idea his life was so sad. He lost almost all the people he loved, except 1 daughter. 😥

My favorite quote is. He left home at 18 because his dad was an idiot. When he returned at 21 he was amazed at how wise his dad had gotten.

Mark Twain is my favorite author of all time and also one of my favorite personalities of all times. I sometimes try to mimic his writing style with varying degrees of success. He was such a witty man.

7:03 Never heard of “Hamlet Beecher Stowe” 😂 Had to rewind a few times to make sure I didn’t hear it wrong.

“I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life… some of which actually happened “

I recommend doing either Ned Kelly: The only armoured bushranger in Australia, or Ignaz Semmelweis: The man who promoted handwashing.

One of the elements of Twain's life that wasn't broached here is his interest in mysticism. He hosted a lot of gatherings and seances in the Hartford Twain House.

I was born and raised in Hannibal, still live here. Hannibal Missouri is “Mark Twains hometown”. In the book of Tom Sawyer, the town Tom is in is about Hannibal. Pretty cool to see a video about somebody that I know so much about. Thanks Simon for the amazing videos on this channel and business blaze and every channel!

Everyone should read Letters from Earth. It is an amazing book.

I wish you had mentioned his part in editing and writing US Grant's autobiography. It's one of the best autobiographies ever written, and his and Grant's friendship is a great story.

Saw Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain several times. Performances were so well researched and acted that you thought you were transported to the past century and heard Twain lecture. A man for all times.

Mark Twain: America's first great humorist {although Ben Franklin had some good lines). Now can you do a bio of America'a second great humorist: Will Rodgers?

What about Mark Twain being an activist and speaking out against the bad treatment of African Rubber workers in the Congo.

1:10 - Chapter 1 - Midwestern beginnings 3:15 - Chapter 2 - "Twain" heads west 5:10 - Mid roll ads 6:40 - Chapter 3 - Setting down back east 12:45 - Chapter 4 - The final act

I like to think that Samuel Clemens and Robin Williams finally got the chance to spar with their witty humors and share their sorrows, even if for just an instant.

These days some schools won't allow some of his books in their libraries. But when I was a kid our grade school teacher read Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer to us over recess. How things have changed.

Wow, looking at the picture of Clemens makes me realize that the guy who played him in Star Trek the next generation when the crew went back to 19th century San Francisco was a very close match.

I went to school in Hannibal, MO. Everything is named after Mark Twain.

I'm from the mentioned calaveras county ...our county fair is "the jumping frog jubilee" and we actually have a competition to see whos frog can go furthest in 3 hops.....I had gone every year of my life until damn corona.....

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I loved Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. His beef with Merlin made my childhood

I love him

I had heard of Twain's being friends of inventors, but I did not know that Tesla was one of them. He really was a brilliant man. Enjoyed the program today. Vaughn

He managed to tell the whole story without mentioning that Clemens published and promoted the memoirs of U.S. Grant, a great success. How could he omit that?

Minor point but, wasn't Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher, the miracle worker Twain was referring to?

I love this man work and how sarcastic he was. A real genius!

The bit about kid gloves in Innocents Abroad is still the funniest thing I've ever read.

There was more, then, to his strange sorority than an elderly man’s yearning for grandchildren, more even than nostalgia for his daughters’ childhoods. “As for me,” Twain wrote at the age of seventy-three, “I collect pets: young girls-girls from ten to sixteen years old; girls who are pretty and sweet and naive and innocent-dear young creatures to whom life is a perfect joy and to whom it has brought no wounds, no bitterness, and few tears.”

Also interesting is that Mark Twain was not a believer in Palmistry until he met the world-famous palmist Cheiro and was amazed by his insights. He then became a firm believer in Palmistry. Also, his palm print is available in Cheiro's book Language of the Hand.

In Calaveras County, California there is a Jumping Frog Jubilee every year because of Mark Twain.

No mention of the role Twain played in the autobiography that Ulysses Grant wrote.

I was alive when three videos featuring Simon (Biographics, TopTenz & Today I Found Out) were published/released within a span of 60 seconds.

Sheesh what a beautiful ending to his life and to your telling of it. Got me choked up. Awesome stuff.

Mark Twain has some of my favorite quotes of all time. He had a way of seeing through the mess, and describing what he saw on the outside to everyone else

I will not stop asking. *Please do a video on the Civil War General William T. Sherman: Hero or War Criminal(Title Suggestion)*

MARK TWAIN was a great American author and humorist of the 19th century. But he was preceded in the 18th century by Benjamin Franklin; specifically in his "POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK". Its a collection of wit, humor, aphorisms, trivia, advice, satire and proverbs with a distinctly "American flavor". For example: "Fish and visitors stink in 3 days". "3 people may keep a secret- if 2 of them are dead" "Beware the young Doctor and the old Barber" These quotes could just have easily come from Mark Twain's pen,several decades later.

His wife Olivia looks like Eva Green's character in Penny Dreadful! 😂 Please do videos on the following people: 1. Dennis Rader 2. Jack London 3. Upton Sinclair 4. Jack Ketchum 5. Jane Austen 6. Anton LaVey 7. Annalise Michel

I don't think you can underestimate how important Mark Twain was to the American literary scene.

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”-Mark Twain My favorite wuote

Although mark twain may be dead, he helped me realize that I have dealt with death before and I shouldn’t fear it

I appreciate your work! Keep doing your thing, buddy!

I literally love all your videos! Watched some of them multiple times ! Keep it up

You didn't mention that he spent time writing in Elmira, NY (Huck Finn and Connecticut Yankee) and that he and Olivia were buried in that city's cemetery.

Mark Twain is my favourite english-speaking author.

One of your best pieces Simon!

can you make biography of Jack London or Kipling next please? :)

Simon my man! That is one epic beard coming along Sir! Keep up the great work and cheers from Las Vegas, Nevada USA

"Thank you for watching ..." and thank you for another video gem Simon

I thoroughly enjoyed this, thanks!

I am a relative of Samuel Clemens on My mother's mother's side of the family. It explains my interest in writing.

Eloquent as usual, bravo !

If I had a medal to give out, I would give it to Tesla. If I had a check to invest, I would give it to Edison.

When I began high school, we all took 9th grade English with the same teacher (shoutout to Mr. Rawson!). Every. single. book. we read, after we shared our opinions and such on said book during discussions, he would turn around and try to connect the story with NUCLEAR WAR. And the first book we jumped into? Well, of course, that book was always "the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". I kid you not, he had a whole discourse to share on how Huck Finn and Jim traveling down the Mississippi River had to do with full-scale Nuclear War and the Nuclear Winter that was predicted to come afterward. Considering that he found the greatest piece of television he had ever witnessed was the movie "Threads" (which he told us and SHOWED us on day 1 and 2 of school), I guess this wasn't as far-fetched with him as we thought it was.

He did use words most object to today, but at the time many also rebuked him for his sympathetic minority characters. Even a century dead he can not win.

When does Simon's beard get it's own channel?

When I think of Stephen King I think of a scary talking car with a heart of gold.

Mark Twain was born 1835 and died in 1910 same years were Halley's Comet returned

Loved the Fact Fiend cameo; keep up the great work, Simeon

😂😂 " ...she relented and they got married..."

No mention of him publishing Grant and Sherman's memoirs?

Mark Twain. . .what a man. What man.

Beards getting so dope Mr Whistler. Still waiting on this beard tips video. We need details/tutorial asap!

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is one of the earliest books I remember reading, I must have been around 7 years old and the only reason I started reading it was because the main character was from the same state as I am (Twain's involvement as a resident in Connecticut couldn't have hurt either). In retrospect over 30 years later, it is easy to see how this was one of the first books that ignited my love of reading (along with, in order of reading them, Moby Dick, Enders Game & Dune) a love that still exists just as strong today as it was when I was in elementary school. I could argue that it was happenstance that it was this story in particular, but that does not change the fact that it was one of those formative events in my personal journey through life. Over the course of my life since then, I have only appreciated Twain more and more as I matured and understood more and more of these stories.... I still remember Moby Dick (not that this is from Twain but it illustrates my point) all the way back in 2nd grade (it took me a long time to make it through that book as so many words I had to look up), being just a great story about the sea, nothing more, I did not understand the more complex themes back then, it was simply a great naval yarn for me at first... the same is basically the same for the stories I have read from Twain. To be able to appreciate something as a child, as an adolescent and as an adult, for various reasons at different times, is a mark of truly great writing.

There is a quote attributed to and disavowed by Mark Twain; "The coldest winter I ever saw was a summer in San Francisco." When asked, he quipped, "that's the greatest line I never said."

your videos always enlighten me.

Proud to be related to him. His grandfather, and my great-great grandfather were brothers.

Great vid... You oughta do one on Pliny the Elder

Hey! Simon mentioned the county I grew up in. We still jump frogs at our county fair called The Frog Jump.

Very enjoyable, thankyou

The poor guy. How much loss can one man suffer?

Thank you, Simon. Mark Twain was a writer, a natural born storyteller, and a self-taught genius who was the first to understand that art could be created out of the English language.

I went to high school in a town called Rising Sun MD in Cecil county, class of 2004. We read Huck Finn.

Could you guys do one on James Gavin aka, Jumpin' Jim Gavin? He was arguably the last combat general in the US military. He lead paratroopers and he would often say, "officers should be the first to jump and last at the chow line." Leading by example he did exactly that. Since the German soldiers received very little _if _*_any_* training in hand to hand, he made sure his soldiers had ample training in that area and taught them to get in close whenever possible because more often than not, the German soldiers would panic when that happened. It was said that his men were fiercely loyal to him and emulated him. In an interview in the article I read about him a soldier from another group said, "Each of them was a copy of Gavin. They walked like him, talked like him and acted like him. They were tough sons' a b*tches every one of em"

One of my favorite books, and my favorite Twain book is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court. Still love it. "You can't invent a locomotive until it's locomotive inventin' time"

The coldest winter I ever had was a summer in San Francisco, I understood this when I was down on that pier getting sunburnt but also freezing to the bone

I've read all this in Mark Twain's secret biography, to be released 100 years after his death. Still, I like to hear it from Simon. And it is a great way to support one of the greatest KZfaqrs. Keep up the great work. I will SMASH the like button now.

"Humans are the only animals that blush, or the only ones that need to" - Mark Twain

Maybe a bio on Gary Gygax (Creator of Dungeons and Dragons) or another writer like Chinua Achebe (Things Fall Apart) Awesome job as always Biographics

When do we get a Biographics about Simon?

Finally! A new video. Simon has been slowing down on the videos.