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Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend by Mark Twain β€” book cover

Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend

by Mark Twain, John P. Holms (Editor), Karin Baji
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Overview

Mark Twain...

On kindness: Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

On friends: Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

On growing old: Take any road you please...it curves always, which is a continual promise, whereas straight roads reveal everything at a glance and kill interest.

On truth and lies: many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

On health and fitness: Part of the secret success in life is to eat what you like and let the food it out inside.

Synopsis

Mark Twain...

On kindness: Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

On friends: Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

On growing old: Take any road you please...it curves always, which is a continual promise, whereas straight roads reveal everything at a glance and kill interest.

On truth and lies: many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

On health and fitness: Part of the secret success in life is to eat what you like and let the food it out inside.

About the Author, Mark Twain

Riverboat pilot, journalist, failed businessman (several times over): Samuel Clemens -- the man behind the figure of Mark Twain -- led many lives. But it was in his novels and short stories that he created a voice and an outlook on life that will be forever identified with the American character.

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Book Details

Published
June 1, 1998
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pages
128
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312190873

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