More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
  2. France has usually been governed by prostitutes.
  3. The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.
  4. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
  5. Of all the creatures that were made he [man] is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one - the solitary one - that posse…
  6. Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
  7. Biographies are but clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
  8. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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