If the reader thinks he is done, now, and that this book has no moral to it, he is in error. The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are "no account," go away from home, and then you will *have* to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them - if the people you go among suffer by the operation.
Mark TwainIt was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Mark TwainIt is easier to stay out than to get out.
Mark TwainDistance lends enchantment to the view.
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The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
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I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.
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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
Mark TwainIf Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
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