“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”— Mark Twain, amazon.comTagged: Wisdom, wholesome, Views, Men, humanity
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”— Mark Twain, amazon.comTagged: Wisdom, wholesome, Views, Men, humanity
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. 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 necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”— Mark Twain, amazon.comTagged: Wisdom, Youth, Childhood, humanity, Law
“What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”— Mark Twain, amazon.comTagged: mark twain quotes, best mark twain quotes, Wrong, Right, morals
“All kings is mostly rapscallions.”— Mark Twain, amazon.comTagged: mark twain quotes, best mark twain quotes, Wrong, Right, morals