But probability, inherent or extraneous, is as soon to be looked in Mark Twain's stories as in the Arabian Nights .
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. It is because we are not the person involved. When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know to have gone to a better world I am moved to lead a different life. Nothing needs so reforming as other people's habits. If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.