Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Friday – March 10, 2023
“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
“To the young American, here or elsewhere, the paths to fortune are innumerable and all open; There is invitation in the air and success in all his wide horizon.” The Gilded Age, Mark Twain
“I said it was a brutal thing.” “No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of that word; they have not deserved it.” The Mysterious Stranger, 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.” The Prince and The Pauper, Mark Twain
“It’s the little things that smooths people’s roads the most.” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
“When in doubt, tell the truth.” Mark Twain
“Your country and mine is an interesting one, but there is nothing there that is half so interesting as the human mind.” Letters from the World, Mark Twain
“They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.” The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” Mark Twain
“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.” The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain