Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Wednesday – February 9, 2022
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” Mark Twain
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“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” Mark Twain
“When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.” Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper, 1881
“Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897
“A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” Mark Twain
“It’s better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is almost always right.”
“When all else fails, write what your heart tells you. You can’t depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out of focus.”
“The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to die for rags–that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented by monarchy; let monarchy keep it.” A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1889