It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.
Mark TwainThe only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.
Mark TwainTwenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.
Mark Twain