Creative Quotations from . . .
Mark Twain
(1835-1910) born on Nov 30
US "novelist, journalist, river pilot". "The "Great American humorist" was also known as "The People's Author" and creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn."
 
   
F
Woman is unrivaled as a wet nurse.

R
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
A
Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
N
"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth."
K
"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Woman -- an Opinion," speech, to Washington Correspondents' Club;in "Mark Twain's Speeches," ed. Albert Bigelow Paine, 1923."
R:
A: ""The Innocents Abroad," ch. 23, 1869."
N: ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," ch. 22, 1889."
K: "In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."



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