Composite photo
of Clemens at his Stormfield mansion in Redding, CT
courtesy of Dave Thomson
...being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry,
and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
- Mark Twain's Notebook
It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich
-- these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has
not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, (University of California Press, 2010)
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