Mark Twain (born Samuel Langhorne Clemens), was an American author and humorist, most famous for his novels,
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer",
and its sequel
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
He lived between 1835
and 1910.
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Soap and
Education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in
the long run.
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Adam was but human - this explains it all.
He did not want the apple for the apple's sake,
he wanted it only because it was forbidden
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Truth is
the most valuable thing we have.
Let us economize it.
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Man is
the Only Animal that Blushes.
Or needs to.
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There
are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is
cowardice.
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It
takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the
heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
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There
are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that
are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
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Familiarity
breeds contempt - and children
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It
is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three
unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience,
and the prudence never to practice either of them.
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When
angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
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All you
need in this life is ignorance confidence;
then success is sure.
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