More quotes by Mark Twain

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
"Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever."
"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter."
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect)."
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."