Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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.
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!
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