"A man who chooses not to read..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”

“It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.”

“If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.”

“Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.”

“It is a tie between men to have read the same book.”

“A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.”

“It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.”

“Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.”

“No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”