More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
  2. Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world - and never will.
  3. We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by …
  4. An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.
  5. Among the three or four million cradles now rocking in the land are some which this nation would preserve for ages as sacred things, if we …
  6. He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.
  7. We haven't all had the good fortune to be ladies; we haven't all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to th…
  8. He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

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