If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people
Mark TwainI would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
Mark TwainThe mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.
Mark Twain