in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
Mark TwainThe convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.
Mark TwainIn Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.
Mark Twain