| Hain't we got all the fools in town on our
side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town? - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. - Following the Equator; Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out. - Life on the Mississippi If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be. - Letter to Olivia Clemens, 1/23/1885 The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. - More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927 Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect. - Mark Twain, a Biography |
 Page from 1917 Mark Twain Calendar published by Sully and Kleinteich of NY by arrangement with Harper & Brothers from the Dave Thomson collection |
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