Top 5 quotes from Mark Twain
- "Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
- "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
- "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
- "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- "There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."
Top 5 quotes from Family, Youth
- "Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
- "I am not young enough to know everything."
- "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
- "The path to youth takes a whole life."
- "You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters."
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"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." - Copy to Clipboard
-- Mark Twain
-- Mark Twain
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