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101 " I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. "
― Mark Twain
102 " Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. "
103 " Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. "
― Mark Twain , Mark Twain's Notebook
104 " 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
105 " Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. "
106 " I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other. "
107 " Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out. "
108 " Never let your education interfere with your learning. "
109 " What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so. "
110 " Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. "
111 " The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. "
112 " By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity – another man’s, I mean. "
113 " Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. "
114 " The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures. "
― Mark Twain , On Masturbation
115 " In the afternoon the ship's company assembled aft, on deck, under the awnings; the flute, the asthmatic meodeon, and the consumptive clarinet crippled the Star Spangled Banner, the choir chased it to cover, and George came in with a peculiarly lacerating screech on the final note and slaughtered it. Nobody mourned. We carried out the corpse on three cheers (that joke was not intentional and I do not endorse it). "
― Mark Twain , The Innocents Abroad
116 " We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. "
117 " Nature has no originality--I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has a superb and amazing and infinitely varied equipment of old ones, but she never adds to them. She repeats--repeats--repeats--repeats. Examine your memory and your experience; you will find it is true. "
118 " ′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read. "
119 " Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. "
120 " If books are not good company, where shall I find it? "