There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.
Tag: Mark Twain
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I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Are you so unobservant that you do not yet realize that sanity and hapiness are an impossible combination?
[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon?laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution?these can lift at a colossal humbug?push it a little?weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others.