Happy Birthday!

infinite monkey · 11-30-2011, 10:50 AM

Happy 176th Birthday Mark Twain!

Wit and Humor--if any difference it is in duration--lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, brief, and can do damage--the other fools along and enjoys the elaboration.

--Mark Twain's Notebook

This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth--ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!

--Letter to J. H. Twichell, 1/29/1901

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

--"Corn Pone Opinions"

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane...

--quoted in Isabel Lyon's Journal, 2/15/1906

11-30-2011, 10:50 AM	#11
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Happy 176th Birthday Mark Twain! Wit and Humor--if any difference it is in duration--lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, brief, and can do damage--the other fools along and enjoys the elaboration. --Mark Twain's Notebook This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth--ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there! --Letter to J. H. Twichell, 1/29/1901 *It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.* --"Corn Pone Opinions" Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane... --quoted in Isabel Lyon's Journal, 2/15/1906

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