More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it.
  2. A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
  3. 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 …
  4. [Citing a familiar 'American joke':] In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who wer…
  5. He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.
  6. Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away…
  7. He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.
  8. I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is …

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