Grow with Grace. Live with Purpose.

Mark Twain

"It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."

"A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"

"Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession."

"I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty."

"Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects."

"and so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied."

"I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead."

"There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice."

"Happiness is a Swedish sunset - it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it."

"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain."

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