“Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Notebook
Source: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 346
“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.”
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