Mark Twain vs. Friedrich Nietzsche

"I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature, but I never saw a policeman interfe…"

"Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington", The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John Paul"

"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."

"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience"

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."

"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."

"After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her."

"Ah, it was worth ten years of a man’s life to be dead then! Everything was pleasant. I was in a good neighbourhood, for all the dead people that lived near m…"

"He was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie."

"He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty."

"I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county."

"The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it."

"There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because …"

"Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs—the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. We…"

": "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

"No accident ever comes late; it always arrives precisely on time."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."

"None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favor at the same time. There are many asses."

"I have not read Nietzsche or Ibsen, nor any other philosopher, and have not needed to do it, and have not desired to do it; I have gone to the fountain-head …"