Mark Twain

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of read more

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots read more

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.