Mark Twain

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

- Mark Twain, born 30 November 1835.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."