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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.11, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.170, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.684, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 5, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.385, Courier Corporation

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.6, Xist Publishing

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Following the Equator ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

Mark Twain (1960). “The autobiography of Mark Twain: including chapters now published for the first time”

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.116, Courier Corporation

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

"Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist".

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Mark Twain (2008). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.1053, Penguin

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.424, Univ of California Press

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

Mark Twain (2015). “Pudd'nhead Wilson”, p.129, Xist Publishing

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.25, Courier Corporation