Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
- Mark Twain

Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.
- Mark Twain

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction.
- Mark Twain

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
- Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
- Mark Twain

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressman can.
- Mark Twain

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.
- Mark Twain