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It is more satisfactory to be pretty than right.
- Published in "Missing Maxims Returned to the Mark Twain Papers," Bancroftiana, Fall 2008, p. 11. |
 AI image created by R. Kent Rasmussen |
 Illustration by "Dwig" from Whimlets, 1902 |
There are women who have an indefinable charm in their
faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger
who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail. One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare. One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really
beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule
applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques--especially
to mosques.
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