Mark Twain Selections

“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”
“By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.”
“Nothing needs reforming as other people’s habits.”
“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”
“We despise all reverences and all the objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.”