Sublime

Twain quipped, ‘I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.’

Gary Thomas • Education: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

— George Eliot, 1879

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“It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.” — Mark Twain

In Poor Richard’s almanac, Franklin would later put it more pithily: “Fish and guests stink after three days.”23