More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. Enough, enough, enough! Say no more! Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!
  2. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots underst…
  3. I used to worship the mighty genius of Michael Angelo - that man who was great in poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture - great in ever…
  4. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
  5. They spell it 'Vinci' and pronounce it 'Vinchy'. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
  6. Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a de…
  7. I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
  8. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only …

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