Quote #2
Letters from the Earth (1909)
More from Mark Twain
- I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.
- I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.
- I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices.
- Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
- Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
- All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the 'elect' have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away…
- A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.
- Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.