Mark Twain Quotes

I don't know why, but reading quotes is really fun.

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."
"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know."
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat."
"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
"It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions."
"Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it."
"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."
"What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself."
"When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not."
"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."
"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."
"The report of my death was an exaggeration."

Reading

Today, I was reading for a few hours (maybe 4? Something like that) until I finished my book. The book, by the way, was Belinda by Maria Edgeworth. This is certainly not unusual for me. What's unusual is that I started this book maybe half a month or longer ago, and I just barely finished it. It was pretty good for the most part. There was just this small bit in the middle that seemed to bore me slightly. It is, of course, a nineteenth century British novel. Those are my favorites of late. Well, for a long time. Ever since I grew tired of fantasy books. In fact, even before then I started reading similar books.

Next I'm going to read The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. This, although written during the same era and in the same general place, is slightly different. It's an early gothic novel, similar to those written by Ann Radcliffe such as The Mysteries of Udolpho which I was reading earlier. It's very short. When I finish it, I'll be reading the books from a series by Anthony Trollope. Trollope books are good, and the best thing is that there's a ton of them. So that should keep me occupied for a while. I'm going to go and start on my next book now.