More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. (Sometimes quoted as newspapers.)
  2. Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done fo…
  3. 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…
  4. When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
  5. The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
  6. In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
  7. They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
  8. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

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