To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
Mark TwainA woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.
Mark Twainisn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
Mark Twain