My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.
Mark TwainPut no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.
Mark TwainThe average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.
Mark Twain