Mark Twain
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow- mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts." The Innocents Abroad, 1869 (Conclusion)
"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact." Life on the Mississippi, 1883 (Chapter 17)
"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits." Pudd'n'head Wilson, 1894 (Chapter 15)
"The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it," and
"To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently aware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct." Both from How to Tell a Story, 1895
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." (attributed)
"A classic is something that everybody praises and nobody has read." (attributed)
"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact." Life on the Mississippi, 1883 (Chapter 17)
"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits." Pudd'n'head Wilson, 1894 (Chapter 15)
"The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it," and
"To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently aware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct." Both from How to Tell a Story, 1895
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." (attributed)
"A classic is something that everybody praises and nobody has read." (attributed)
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