More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.
  2. He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.
  3. Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world - and never will.
  4. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter - it's the difference between a lightning bug and …
  5. Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.
  6. Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it.
  7. Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
  8. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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