As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.
Mark TwainWe were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.
Mark TwainWhat a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.
Mark TwainI am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.
Mark Twain