"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."

永远不要和愚蠢的人争论，他们会拖你到他们的水平，然后用经验教训你。

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

益友、好书和沉睡的良心，这就是理想的生活。

"The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted."

平凡文明人与野蛮人的区别在于，前者被装饰，后者被涂鸦。

"If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed."

不读报纸就是无知，读报纸就是被误导。

"A person's worst enemy is his own tongue."

一个人的最大敌人是他自己的嘴巴。

"The truth is still wearing shoes, and lies have already covered half the world."

真理还在穿鞋的时候，谎言就已经走遍了半个世界。

"Life is like a box of chocolates； you never know what you're gonna get."

生活就像一盒巧克力，你永远不知道下一颗是什么味道。

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

在一个总是想让你变成别人的世界里，做自己是最了不起的成就。

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

做伟大工作的唯一方法是热爱你所做的事情。

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."

想象力比知识更重要。因为知识有限，而想象力包罗万象，推动进步，孕育进化。

这些名言涵盖人生智慧、道德哲学和幽默表达，展现了马克·吐温作为文学家的深邃洞察力。