More from Mark Twain, introducing Winston Churchill, New York City, December 12, 1900
- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
- By his father he is English, by his mother he is American– to my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.
- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anyone.
- Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.
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