Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.
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We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.Mark Twain
There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
Mark Twain
The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.
Mark Twain
There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing
Mark Twain
Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
Mark Twain
Youth is wonderful. It's a shame to waste it on the young.
Mark Twain
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