❝ “In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.” Mark Twain
❝ “Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.” Mark Twain
❝ “Life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one’s head.” Mark Twain
❝ “In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.” Mark Twain