More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
  2. The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
  3. There is nothing lower than the human race except the French.
  4. When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I…
  5. There are no dialogues, only intersecting monologues.
  6. If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. (Sometimes quoted as newspapers.)
  7. There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
  8. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

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