If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
Mark TwainIt is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.
Mark TwainOur heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.
Mark TwainWhen you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!
Mark Twain