The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
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This sparkling anthology of Mark Twain’s most trenchant remarks has been culled from his books, speeches, letters and conversations recorded by contemporaries. The sayings are as fresh today as when he initially wrote them and represent Twain at his wittiest and best.
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Pretty weak. Place the price was cheap.
Rating: 2 / 5
The book contains Mark Twain’s wit.
It was much smaller than I probable.
Rating: 4 / 5
Not only is the book small, somewhere linking a pack of smokes and a wallet only thinner, it really doesn’t capture the wordsmithing Twain was noted for. Damn shame attempt at revenue generation.
Rating: 1 / 5
Like Mark Twain, have been a fan of his for 55 years. am very glad that I have the opportunity to collect his works.My favourite Innocents Abroad – priceless.
Books indoors quickly, securely and the price very reasonable.
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Rating: 3 / 5
Mr. Mark Twain has done a considerable amount of writing about stuff and such and so it doesn’t much surprise a body to see that some publishing people have come out with a book about his “wit and wisdom.” I don’t see any harm in it, considering that he is long dead and gone and all, and so there is no danger that it might go to his head.
Anyway, this book is a small one, for which I am thankful, not being a fantastic reader of books and such. All the words of wit and wisdom are arranged in an agreeable manner what with headings like “Religion,” and “Politics, History” and “Travel” and so on to keep things tidy. And the quotations from the many books that Mr. Mark Twain made are kept small and more or less to the point. And it is written down after everyone of them where the editor, whose name is Paul Negri, establish them, which I guess is helpful for some people who want to look them up and read them again or to check and see if Paul Negri got them right.
I reckon he did since it sure looks like he got all the spelling right, although I couldn’t say for sure not being a real top notch speller myself. All and all and taken all around, I reckon this small book does a body proud. I know I felt real excellent seeing as how myself is quoted in two or three places, and as far as memory serves, I do judge that Mr. Paul Negri got what I said right, although I’m not sure he really picked the best stuff. I mean, I said a lot more than any body could really bear in that long book by Mr. Mark Twain about my so-called “adventures” down the Mississippi with Jim and all that happened. He quotes me as saying that all men are cowards, and I guess that’s pretty much the truth, if you look at it deep sufficient. But heck, that ain’t really no huge bit of wisdom. Any plum fool could see that considering how people are frightened to death of people like kings and such and the Widow Douglas and how the best thing a body can do is just get away from ornery people and truant officers and such.
Not that I like to assess, cause I ain’t much excellent at it compared to Aunt Polly and Miss Watson and Mr. Mark Twain hisself.
Some of what he writes is pretty amusing, like “Familiarity breeds contempt–and children.” You gotta really like the use of the dash in that line, don’t you? It kinda breaks up the flow of the thought and surprises a body reading it. It’s just like when Mr. Mark Twain was on the stage giving all those lectures and talks and such. He just liked to make people laugh, mainly if he could get them to laughing at themselves.
Some of these so called witticisms and wisdoms kinda place a body to wondering what the tarnation ancient Sammy Clemens (which is his real name, don’t you know) had in mind. For instance I don’t see the meaning in this line, much less any wit and wisdom in it: “Nothing is so ignorant as a man’s left hand, except a lady’s watch.” I’ll be hogtied and sent to Sunday school if I can figure out whether he means a lady’s watch on her blouse or a lady’s watch in her eyes. And by the way my left hand’s about as smart as my right, and I know tell of a few lefties who could tell Mr. Samuel Langhorne Clemens that if any of their hands was dumb, it would be the right one.
But some of this is right smart and makes for some pretty excellent reading, if a body has such a hankering. For model when I said that “Conscience takes up more room than all the rest of a person’s insides” I must say in all modesty that I pretty much knew what I was talking about. But of course this refers only to such people that have done something they need to feel terrible about. As Mr. Mark Twain says, “Man is the only animal who blushes. Or needs to.”
I analyzed this here book a bit not having a lot else to do, and I can say that Mr. Mark Twain’s main technique is to place one thing up against another, close by–the initially having reasonably a real distance from the following, thereby building a body wonder and then have to laugh at such a joining up. Take this for instance: “Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.” Now I gotta admit that I sure do cotton up to that juxtaposition, if you wanna call it that. It reminds me of something that Mr. Clemens did not say: “The road to hell is paved with excellent intentions.” Doing too much excellent wearies a soul.
I also couldn’t help but notice in my analyzing that Mr. Mark Twain is in no danger of going to the Excellent Place hisself and that may account for the fact that he is so darn dreadful cynical, if you know my meaning.
I do have one criticism of this book. It is that Pudd’nhead Wilson seems to have more to say than I do, and considering that I said a lot more than he did in a book that is a lot longer, I just wonder if Mr. Paul Negri is supposing that Pudd’nhead (who wasn’t named Pudd’nhead because he was all that full of wit and wisdom) is better at dispensing such than I am.
Be that as it may, this is, as I said before, a small and simple read and therefore I recommend it.
Rating: 4 / 5