From: haavardf@boson.uio.no (Haavard Fosseng)
Subject: Re: History (was: a paradox)
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway
	<1h7fleINNrgn@agate.berkeley.edu> <Bzo7vx.E18@csn.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:53:00 GMT

In article <Bzo7vx.E18@csn.org> lucas@teal.csn.org (Rick Lucas) writes:

   How about some Twain quotations?



A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody
wants to read.
	Speeches. The Disappearance of Literature

A verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when its all together, It's 
downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They 
take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the 
other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between 
these two limits they just shovel in German.
	Ibid

Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.

By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's, I mean.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side?  And hain't that a big enough
majority in any town?
	Huckleberry Finn

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a
week sometimes to make it up.
	The Innocents Abroad

It is by the goodness of God that, in this country, we have threebenefits: 
freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
	Following the Equator

Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot.  And suppose you were a member of
Congress.  But I repeat myself.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time
to reform.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to
stick to possibilities; truth isn't.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that
the cat has only nine lives.
	Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
	Ibid

Familiarity breeds contempt --- and children.

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with
our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms
of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with
the wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes
with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their
unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out
roofless with their little children to wander unfriended through
wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sport
of the sun-flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in
spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave
and denied it --- for our sakes, who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes,
blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their
steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the
blood of their wounded feet!  We ask of onwe who is the Spirit of
love and who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are
sore beset, and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Grant
our prayer, O Lord, and Thine shall be the praise and honor and
glory now and ever, Amen.
	War Prayer




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