Maxioms by Mark Twain
The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are read more
The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the read more
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
