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(Source: puttingmannersonafeminist, via battlecriesandbananas)
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High ResolutionAfter his house was burgled, Mark Twain wrote (with illustrations by Dorothy Sturgis) and posted this helpful note to future thieves on his front door.
NOTICE.
To the next Burglar. There is nothing but plated ware in this house, now and henceforth. You will find it in that brass thing in the dining-room over in the corner by the basket of kittens. If you want the basket, put the kittens in the brass thing. Do not make a noise — it disturbs the family. You will find rubbers in the front hall, by that thing which has the umbrellas in it, chiffonier, I think they call it, or pergola, or something like that. Please close the door when you go away!
Very truly yours,
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When Digital Shaming Goes Too Far: Lessons From the Seattle Tip Stiffer - Media - GOOD
A VERY important read.
I’m guilty of saying stupid/inconsiderate/ignorant/et al. comments like everyone else, but nothing is makes me more sad than seeing such a comment (or a bajillion) on the internet. Let my homeboy Mark Twain keep it real:
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Word. The only thing that makes me cry more is Ryan Gosling’s stellar performance in The Notebook. That man took Nicholas Sparks’ insipidities and polished them ‘til they shone like gold.
Will I ever stop posting Ryan Gosling-related things? One day.
Today is not that day.
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High ResolutionSuch a romantic letter from Mark Twain to his wife:
Hartford, Nov. 27/88
Livy Darling, I am grateful — gratefuler than ever before — that you were born, & that your love is mine & our two lives woven & welded together!
SLC.
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My homeboy, Mark Twain
As Twain remembers but the policy planners in our midst tend to forget, the Constitution was made for the uses of the individual, an implement on the order of a plow, an axe, a surveyor’s plumb line, the institutions of government meant to support the liberties of the people as opposed to the ambitions of the state. Love of country follows from the love of its freedoms, not from a pride in its fleets, its armies, or its gross domestic product, and what joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, race or language, all of them weighted with the burdens of the past, but rather their complicity in a shared work of the imagination.
If America is nothing else, it is about making it up as one goes along, the change to build a raft of serviceable identity on which to float south to Vicksburg or the islands of the blessed.
“Democracy 101: Mark Twain’s farewell address” by Lewis H. Lapham, Harper’s, April 2011
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"We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that."
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"I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."
- Mark Twain (via human-voices)(Source: makelovetothemoon, via human-voices)
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(via Nick Agin — Go to Heaven for the Climate, Hell for the Company - Hell Variant)
Another screenprint by Nick Agin, featuring a quote by my homeboy Mark Twain.
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Hedonist.
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