It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races.
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. Mark Twain died in 1910, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1894. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel;But do not dull thy palm with entertainmentOf each new-hatch’d, unfledg’d comrade.
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