Daily Fortunes

Nov 1, 2019

In the first place, God made idiots; this was for practice;...
In the first place, God made idiots; this was for practice; then he made school boards. -- Mark Twain

In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them; they...
In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them; they worked and struggled and had lots of children. There was a Frenchman who talked funny and a greenhorn from England who was a fancy-pants but when it came to the crunch he was all courage. Those novels would...

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years...
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore ... in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long ... seven hundred...

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather...
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. -- Mark Twain, on New England weather

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things...
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Case of Identity"

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